Grant Rocks

Grant Rocks (48˚21'00" 123˚42'00" Sooke Inlet, E of Whiffin Spit, S end of Vancouver I). Capt Walter Colquhoun Grant (1822–61), from Edinburgh, was the earliest colonist on Vancouver I who was not directly associated with the HBC. He sent eight settlers ahead of him, in 1848, to clear farmland in the Sooke area, and arrived himself the following year. Grant was hired by the HBC to survey and map Vancouver I, and he also built an early sawmill. After running short of funds he went to Oregon...

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