Jewell Island

Jewell Island (53˚15'00" 131˚59'00" Entrance to Skidegate Inlet, QCI). Named in 1945 after Ambrose Jewell, one of 22 passengers in the schooner Georgianna, wrecked in a gale in Skidegate Inlet in 1851. The vessel was stripped by a group of Haida, and the passengers and crew held for eight weeks before being ransomed by Capt Lafayette Balch of the Demaris Cove. See Georgianna Point and Balch Is for more details. Before 1945, Jewell I was known as Tree I. The local name for this feature is...

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