Digby Point

Digby Point (48˚48'27" 123˚12'06" NW side of Saturna I, Gulf Is). Harold Digby Payne (1872–1954), a wealthy young Englishman, settled on Saturna about 1891 after following his older brothers Charles and Gerald out to the Gulf Is (see Payne Point). He built a store there and the island’s first post office—originally called Pikes Landing, after early settler and adventurer Warburton Pike—and rowed across to Mayne I once a week to pick up mail. Harold raised sheep at Winter Cove and...

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