Douglas Channel

Douglas Channel (53˚40'00" 129˚08'00" Between Wright Sd and Kitimat Arm, W side of Hawkesbury I), Douglas Point (54˚20'00" 130˚20'00" E of Melville Arm, N shore of Prince Rupert Hbr). Sir James Douglas (1803–77), gov of Vancouver I, 1851–64, and of BC, 1858–64, was the pre-eminent figure in the province’s colonial history. He was born in British Guiana (Guyana) of a Scottish merchant father and a Creole mother, educated in Scotland and apprenticed to the NWC in 1819. By 1825, after...

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