Collinson Point

Collinson Point (48˚52'00" 123˚21'00" SW point of Galiano I, Gulf Is). William Tonkins “Tom” Collinson (1840–1911), a native of Yorkshire, arrived in BC in 1858 in pursuit of gold. In the 1870s he moved to Mayne I, where he opened a store at Miners Bay, was appointed postmaster and magistrate, and farmed. He and his wife, Mary Olifers (whom he married at Victoria in 1884, his first wife, also Mary, having died the year before), turned their home into a boarding house in 1895. His...

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