Ildstad Islands


Ildstad Islands (50˚31'00" 127˚42'00" N side of Quatsino Sd, W of Drake I, NW Vancouver I). Thomas Ildstad (1867–1942) was born in Norway and immigrated to the US with his family as a child. He married Bertha Marie Brustad (1865–1964) in Minnesota and moved to BC in the early 1900s with Bertha and their seven children. In 1904, Thomas was working as a surveyor’s assistant near Winter Hbr in Quatsino Sd. He and his family stayed in the area, moved to Quatsino in 1906, homesteaded and...

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