Etches Point

Etches Point (52˚09'00" 131˚13'00" E side of Louscoone Inlet, SW Moresby I, QCI). British merchant Richard Cadman Etches (1744–1817) was the main investor in the King George’s Sd Co (also known as Richard Cadman Etches & Co), which sent the King George, under Nathaniel Portlock, and the Queen Charlotte, under George Dixon, to the PNW coast in 1785 on one of the region’s earliest fur-trading ventures. A second expedition was dispatched in 1786, under James Colnett, and in 1789 the...

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