Hunt Rock


Hunt Rock (50˚54'00" 127˚40'00" E side of Nigei I, off N end of Vancouver I). William Hunt (1866–1949) was a son of HBC factor and Ft Rupert storekeeper Robert Hunt and his Tlingit wife, Mary Ebbets. His older brother, George Hunt, was an important interpreter and artifact collector for anthropologist Franz Boas. William fished and trapped around Rivers Inlet and worked briefly at Pine I lighthouse before becoming the third lighthouse keeper at Scarlett Point on Balaklava I in 1908. He and...

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