Keyes Point

Keyes Point (52˚21'00" 127˚55'00" E side of Roscoe Inlet, NE of Bella Bella). Lt Cdr Adrian St Vincent Keyes, a retired RN submariner, briefly commanded Canada’s first submarine squadron, based at Esquimalt in 1914. Two 284-tonne subs, CC1 and CC2, had been hastily bought from their US manufacturer—after being rejected by Chile, their intended owner—by BC premier Richard McBride, who worried that the W coast would come under attack by German warships. Overpriced and quite ineffectual,...

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