Copeland Islands

Copeland Islands (50˚00'00" 124˚48'00" Off Malaspina Peninsula, NE end of Str of Georgia). Joe Copeland was a well-known handlogger and trapper who came to the Desolation Sd area around 1900 and lived at Portage Cove. He had been a bugler in the US Civil War and then joined a gang that robbed stagecoaches before he escaped to Canada one step ahead of the law. He carried a Luger pistol and, according to coastal pioneer Jim Spilsbury, “used to meet the steamboat dressed in a full Confederate...

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