Keefe Island

Keefe Island (50˚20'00" 127˚53'00" N of Mayday I, in Side Bay, N side of Brooks Bay, NW side of Vancouver I). Master mariner Michael Lawrence Keefe (1851–99) came to BC from Harbour Grace, Nfld, about 1887 and was skipper of various Victoria-based sealing schooners, including the Beatrice, Dolphin and Dawn, the latter owned by Victoria merchant and politician Thomas Earle. His wife, Agnes Keefe (b 1853), and large family joined him in Victoria in 1890. In 1892, while master of the Rosie...

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