July Point

July Point (50˚30'00" 126˚04'00" E side of Port Neville, Johnstone Str). The hydrographic service chose, in 1950, to change the name of this feature from Boulder Point, its widely duplicated former name, to July Point. It was during the month of July 1792 that two of the officers from Capt George Vancouver’s HMS Discovery—2nd lt Peter Puget and Joseph Whidbey, the master—examined and surveyed this stretch of coastline with small boats.

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