Fish Bay

Fish Bay (53˚06'00" 129˚16'00" S side of Gil I, between Pitt I and Princess Royal I). Robert Fish (1833–1927), born in Dorset, England, immigrated with his brother James to Victoria in 1851 aboard the Tory to work at the HBC’s Craigflower Farm. His older brother Charles had come out the previous year. Having fulfilled their HBC contracts by 1856, Robert and James were able to buy 20 ha of land in Saanich. In 1862 they married two sisters, Ellen and Ann Morris. Robert and Ellen...

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