Deans Point

Deans Point (54˚22'00" 130˚42'15" SE end of Melville I, W of Prince Rupert). James Deans (1827–1905), born in Scotland, came to Victoria in 1853 aboard the Norman Morison and worked as a labourer on the HBC’s Craigflower Farm. Four years later he was able to establish his own Oakvale Farm in the Mt Tolmie area, where his brother George Deans (1833–79) also settled. In 1864 he married Catherine Bullion, a fellow Scot, at Victoria. An amateur geologist and anthropologist, Deans became...

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