Homfray Channel

Homfray Channel (50˚15'00" 124˚38'00" E of E Redonda I, S of Toba Inlet, NE end of Str of Georgia). Civil engineer Robert Homfray (1824–1902), a native of Worcestershire, came to Victoria in 1859 from California, where he had been surveyor for Nevada County. He was a student of famed British engineer Isambard Brunel, whose bridge, railway and steamship projects revolutionized modern public transport. In 1861, as Alfred Waddington’s surveyor, Homfray made an arduous expedition to Bute...

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