Kvarno Island

Kvarno Island (48˚58'00" 125˚35'00" Head of Ucluelet Inlet, near NW entrance to Barkley Sd, W side of Vancouver I). John Hartwick Kvarno (1867–1944) was born in Norway and immigrated to the US with his parents. In the early 1890s he and fellow Norwegian August Lyche (see Lyche I) made a trip to the W coast to look for land they could settle on and farm. While Ucluelet Inlet could hardly be described as ideal for farming, local storekeeper and trader William Spring persuaded them to stay and...

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