Deserters Group

Deserters Group (50˚53'00" 127˚29'00" Off NE end of Vancouver I, in Ripple Passage, N of Port Hardy), 
Deserters Island (50˚53'00" 127˚28'00" One of the Deserters Group). The story of the Ft Rupert “deserters” and their grisly end has many versions, nearly all of which are jumbled and exaggerated. Historian Barry Gough untangles the threads most convincingly in his book Gunboat Frontier: British Maritime Authority and NW Coast Indians, 1846–90. The deserters in question, three in...

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