Curteis Point

Curteis Point (48˚40'29" 123˚23'48" NE point of Tsehum Hbr, NE Saanich Peninsula, N of Victoria). Lt Col Cyril S S Curteis, CMG, DSO, was a retired British Royal Artillery officer who bought waterfront property about 1910 in N Saanich with his wife, Mabel Easton, of Bermuda. When the steamship Iroquois, which served the Gulf Is from Sidney and Nanaimo, sank in a storm in 1911, causing more than 20 deaths, the Curteis home was turned into a temporary hospital and morgue. The col rejoined the...

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