Cook Point

Cook Point (49˚46'40" 124˚03'15" NE side of Nelson I, Jervis Inlet, NW of Vancouver). Named in 1999 after Flying Officer Roy James Cook, who was killed Jan 28, 1944, when his Lancaster bomber was shot down near Bazencourt, France, after a bombing mission (his 15th) over Berlin with No 625 Squadron. He was born at Toronto in 1921 and moved with his family to Victoria in 1933. Cook travelled to England to enlist with the RAF in 1941 and was awarded the DFM in 1943 after completing a successful...

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