Crippen Cove

Crippen Cove (54˚19'00" 130˚23'00" W of Grindstone Point, Digby I, entrance to Prince Rupert Hbr). Lionel Crippen (1875–1915), an early resident of the Prince Rupert area, came to Canada from Edinburgh and produced a delicacy named Crippen’s Boneless Kippered Herring at his Digby I fish plant, 1913–14. He enlisted with the BC Regiment (7th Battalion) as a private in WWI and was killed in action on May 22, 1915. His name is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.

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