Favourite Entrance

Favourite Entrance (49˚59'00" 127˚23'00" S of Mission Group, Barrier Is, Kyuquot Sd, NW side of Vancouver I). The 72-tonne schooner Favorite (as it is more correctly spelled) was built at the Muir shipyard near Sooke in 1868 for pioneer sealers William Spring and Hugh McKay. It was used at first in the codfish trade and to carry freight to California, Mexico and Hawaii, but it joined the Victoria sealing fleet in 1873 and became one of the industry’s most successful vessels. In the...

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