Dixon Entrance

Dixon Entrance (54˚25'00" 132˚00'00" N side of QCI), Dixon Island (53˚34'00" 130˚10'00" SW of McCauley I, Principe Channel, NE of Banks I, S of Prince Rupert). George Dixon (1748–95) was one of the earliest British fur traders on the BC coast. He and Nathaniel Portlock spent 1786–87 in the PNW—aboard the Queen Charlotte and King George, respectively—as part of a trading consortium known as the King George’s Sd Co, formed in London in 1785. Both Dixon and Portlock had sailed on...

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