Gillam Channel


Gillam Channel (49˚48'00" 127˚01'00" Entrance to Esperanza Inlet, W side of Vancouver I), Gillam Islands (50˚27'00" 127˚58'00" NW of Harvey Cove, entrance to Quatsino Sd, NW end of Vancouver I). Master mariner Edward Gillam (1864–1929) came W from NS in 1903, married Betty Buchholy (1869–1937) at Victoria in 1904 and spent many years with the CPR’s BC Coast Steamship Service, becoming an authority on the W coast of Vancouver I. He was “a big, companionable man, kindly and firm, with...

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