Dawsons Landing (51˚35'00" 127˚35'00" N end of Darby Channel, NW side of Rivers Inlet). The federal Fisheries dept established a station at this sheltered location in 1924, in the heady, long-gone days of the great Rivers Inlet salmon boom. Years later, in quieter times, Jimmy and Jean Dawson established a store there; a post office was added in 1967. In the early 2000s the tiny floating community was the inlet’s commercial heart—a regular floatplane stop and a fuel and supply centre for...
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