Gribbell Island

Gribbell Island (53˚24'15" 129˚01'30" E of entrance to Douglas Channel, SW of Kitimat). RN surveyor Lt Daniel Pender named this island in 1867 after his future brother-in-law, Rev Francis Barrow Gribbell. Gribbell arrived at Victoria in 1865 as chaplain to Bishop George Hills and took charge of St John’s Anglican church in 1868. A year later he became rector of St Paul’s, Esquimalt, then principal of the Collegiate School in Victoria, 1870–75, after which he returned to England and...

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