Harbledown Island

Harbledown Island (50˚34'00" 126˚35'00" N of W Cracroft I, W end of Johnstone Str). This 36-sq-km island, once the site of a Kwakwaka’wakw village, was named in 1865 by Lt Daniel Pender. Harbledown presumably refers to the tiny farming settlement near Canterbury that Geoffrey Chaucer called “Bobbe-up-and-doun” in the prologue to his “Manciple’s Tale.” One of Pender’s officers may have had a personal connection to this hamlet. The remote Roman Catholic mission of St Michael’s...

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