Dawes Point

Dawes Point (54˚19'00" 130˚31'00" S end of Tugwell I, W side of Metlakatla Bay, W of Prince Rupert), Dawes Rocks (54˚18'47" 130˚31'38" Off S end of Tugwell I). According to Capt John Walbran, the missionary William Duncan named the point after “Gen Dawes,” a retired British Army officer and important supporter of the Anglican Church Missionary Society in London about 1860. He was probably referring to William Dawes (1762–1836), an earlier figure, who was not a gen at all, but a lt....

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