Gartley Point

Gartley Point (49˚39'00" 124˚55'00" S entrance to Comox Hbr, E side of Vancouver I). George Gartley (1842–1917), from NB, came to BC in 1872 with his wife, Margaret Jane Coburn (1845–1930), also a native of NB, and young son Ernest. They settled first on Burrard Inlet, where George logged for the Moodyville sawmill (he was a “spar-hewer and bull-puncher,” according to Ernest’s obituary). The family then crossed the Str of Georgia in a rowboat to Royston on Vancouver I and farmed the...

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