Houston Stewart Channel

Houston Stewart Channel (52˚09'00" 131˚07'00" Between Moresby I and Kunghit I, QCI). This important passage was called Ibbertson’s Sd in 1787 by George Dixon of the Queen Charlotte. Two years later, Robert Gray, another fur trader, named it Barrell’s Sd after Boston merchant Joseph Barrell, the main investor in the Columbia, Gray’s vessel. An even more common description during these early days was Koyah’s Str, after the region’s predominant chief. It was not until an 1853...

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