Holland Point

Holland Point (48˚24'39" 123˚22'42" Between Ogden Point and Finlayson Point, S side of Victoria). Believed to be named after George Holland, an early HBC employee, who joined the company in London, England, and came to N America in the mid-1830s as a seaman aboard the Beaver. In 1839 he was a schoolteacher at Ft Vancouver on the Columbia R, and four years later became postmaster at Ft Langley. Holland returned to the UK in 1848 and got his master’s certificate, then sailed again to the PNW...

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