Earls Cove

Earls Cove (49˚45'12" 124˚00'33" NE end of Agamemnon Channel, just S of Jervis Inlet). Thomas Egbert Earl, wounded in WWI, was recuperating at Shaughnessy Hospital in Vancouver when he met Nellie Youngblood (1889–1965), who had been living with her uncle on the N Sechelt Peninsula. They married in 1918 and settled on the cove, which in 1952 became the S terminus for a Black Ball ferry to Powell R. It was originally named Earl Cove but was changed to Earls Cove when the post office was...

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