Edward King Island

Edward King Island (48˚50'00" 125˚12'00" W side of Trevor Channel, S of Diana I, Barkley Sd, W side of Vancouver I). Capt Edward Hammond King, born in Devon, England, in 1832, accidentally shot and killed himself on this island in 1861 while taking his gun out of a boat to hunt deer. He had been sent by the BC government as a special constable to take charge of the wreck of the Florencia near Ucluelet and investigate the circumstances behind its sale to Ucluelet trader Charles Stuart. King...

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