Irvines Landing

Irvines Landing (49˚38'00" 124˚03'00" N entrance to Pender Hbr, Malaspina Str, NW of Vancouver). Named for Charles C Irvine, a bearded, pipe-smoking Englishman who opened a primitive store and inn at this site in the late 1880s. His original customers were loggers working up Jervis Inlet, but when tourist-bearing Union steamships began stopping at his wharf about 1891, his business expanded. Irvine sold out in the early 1900s to John and George West, though he remained as postmaster until...

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