Fleet Point

Fleet Point (49˚15'00" 124˚08'00" S side of Nanoose Hbr, E side of Vancouver I). Cdr Ernest James Fleet, in charge of the RN sloop-of-war Icarus, located and surveyed a dangerous rock in Nanoose Hbr in 1896 that had earlier been struck by HMS Impérieuse. That same year, in a splendid ceremony, he married Edythe Mary Macdonald, daughter of William J Macdonald, one of BC’s three senators. In 1909, as a rear adm, Fleet recommended building up Canada’s W coast naval presence with “one or...

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