Goodwin Point


Goodwin Point (52˚17'00" 131˚05'00" S entrance to Collison Bay, SE side of Moresby I, QCI), Goodwin Rock (52˚17'00" 131˚04'00" E of Goodwin Point). After Marion M Goodwin (1850–1919), the first white woman to live on the QCI. A trained nurse with experience in the Franco-German War and Irish smallpox epidemics, she married Anglican missionary William Henry Collison (1847–1922, see Collison Bay) and travelled with him to BC in 1873. The couple were sent initially to Metlakatla, then in...

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