Digby Rock

Digby Rock (52˚30'08" 129˚02'12" Entrance to Weeteeam Bay, SW side of Aristazabal I). Cpl James Digby (1833–60), born in Essex, England, was a member of the Columbia detachment of Royal Engineers, which served in BC 1858–63. He was killed in a hunting accident near the engineers’ camp at Sapperton; his gravestone, now at Fraser Cemetery, is the oldest in the district. Digby’s bricklayer brother Charles (1835–1907) was also with the detachment, as a sapper, and helped build the...

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