Drake Inlet


Drake Inlet (53˚10'00" 128˚59'00" S branch of Cornwall Inlet, Princess Royal I), Drake Island (50˚30'00" 127˚40'00" At junction of Quatsino Sd and Neroutsos Inlet, NW Vancouver I). Lawyer and politician Montague William Tyrwhitt-Drake (1830–1908) was born in England and came to BC in 1859 in unsuccessful pursuit of gold. He formed a law partnership in Victoria with colonial attorney gen George Cary, then founded Drake & Jackson (later Drake, Jackson & Helmcken), the city’s most...

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