Fishermans Cove

Fishermans Cove (49˚21'25" 123˚16'13" E side of Queen Charlotte Channel, SE entrance to Howe Sd, W Vancouver). With the encouragement of the BC government, a group of Nfld fishermen and their families settled here about 1888. It was formerly known as Robson Cove, after Capt Harry Robson Jones (1857–1933), a Vancouver Hbr pilot, 1892–1914, but the name was changed to Fisherman Cove in 1949 to conform to local usage, then to Fishermans Cove in 1961 (Batchelor Cove, just to the NW, was known...

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