Ettershank Point

Ettershank Point (52˚19'00" 128˚04'00" At junction of Return Channel and Bullock Channel, SE end of Yeo I, N of Bella Bella). Capt William Ettershank (1842–1926), son of an Aberdeen ship owner, visited Victoria in 1862 as 1st officer of the clipper Cecelia. He was 1st mate of the Alpha on its final, fatal 1868 voyage (see Alpha Bay) and later worked on the pioneer sidewheel steamers Isabel, built by Hastings Mill owner Edward Stamp, and Emma, built by Joseph Spratt of Victoria’s Albion...

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