Ford Cove

Ford Cove (49˚30'00" 124˚41'00" W side of Hornby I, Str of Georgia). George Ford (1831–99), from Devon, England, came to the Comox valley in 1862 with his friend Henry Maude. He was one of Hornby I’s first settlers, arriving about 1869, followed shortly thereafter by Maude. Both men had First Nation wives, and Ford, in particular, raised so many children that he had to build them a school in 1880. By 1885 he owned 740 ha of fairly open land on the SW part of the island, where he ran...

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