Draney Inlet

Draney Inlet (51˚27'00" 127˚30'00" SE branch of Rivers Inlet), Draney Narrows (51˚28'00" 127˚33'00" Entrance to Draney Inlet), Draney Point (52˚10'00" 127˚56'00" S end of Cunningham I, just E of Bella Bella). Robert Draney (1852–1927), a blacksmith by vocation, came to BC from Ont in the early 1870s and found work in the cannery trade. He was on the Skeena R in 1876–79 at the Aberdeen and Inverness canneries, then built the first Rivers Inlet cannery in 1882. In 1893, Robert bought...

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