Croasdaile Island

Croasdaile Island (54˚07'00" 130˚12'00" Off S side of Smith I, entrance to Skeena R, S of Prince Rupert). Henry Edward Croasdaile (1847–1915) served as an RN officer then immigrated to N America. By the mid-1870s he owned two sheep farms in Idaho that were destroyed in 1877 during conflicts with the Nez Perce First Nation. He came to Victoria with his wife, Ella Teresa Croasdaile (d 1913 in Guernsey), and became involved in several Nass Bay businesses, including canneries, a sawmill and an...

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