Gust Point

Gust Point (54˚09'00" 130˚07'00" On N side of E entrance to Inverness Passage, SE of Prince Rupert). Gustavus Holmes, a hard-working Swedish fisherman who immigrated to Oregon, became co-owner of the British American Cannery on the Fraser R, built on the S shore of Lulu I. In 1883 he built and managed a cannery at Port Essington on the Skeena R, also called the British American, which First Nation workers referred to as Boston Cannery, “Boston” being the Chinook jargon word for American....

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