Hermit Island

Hermit Island (49˚22'00" 123˚28'00" S of Keats I and Barfleur Passage, Howe Sd, NW of Vancouver). In a 1951 interview with Vancouver archivist Maj James Matthews, Isabel Sweeny (1890–1974, née Bell-Irving) claimed to have named this feature in the early 1900s, with her brother, Malcolm Bell-Irving (see Mickey I), while exploring the area by boat from Pasley I, the Bell-Irving family’s summer domain. The island was occupied for many years by a tall, elderly hermit who lived in a driftwood...

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