Deas Island

Deas Island (49˚07'00" 123˚04'00" Fraser R estuary, between Lulu I and Delta), Deas Slough (Just S of Deas I). John Sullivan Deas (c 1838–80), from S Carolina, joined the California gold rush and came to Victoria about 1861. He married Fanny Harris there in 1862. He worked as a tinsmith and hardware dealer at Yale, 1866–68, and Victoria, 1868–71, and then began making tins for Capt Edward Stamp’s salmon cannery at Sapperton. Deas, a mulatto, built his own substantial cannery on Deas I...

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