Douglas Island

Douglas Island (49˚18'40" 124˚09'11" SW side of Ballenas Channel, E of Dorcas Point, Str of Georgia). Amelia Connolly (1812–90) was born at Ft Assiniboine, NW of Edmonton. Her father was William Connolly, an NWC fur trader, and her mother a Cree woman, Miyo Nipiy. Amelia was raised at various NWC and HBC trading posts before marrying James Douglas (1803–77), one of her father’s clerks, in 1828, then moving with him to Ft Vancouver and Ft Victoria and bearing him many children. Although...

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