Lady Ellen Point

Lady Ellen Point (50˚37'00" 127˚07'00" N side of Ellenborough Peninsula, just N of Port McNeill, NE side of Vancouver I). Cdr Cortland Simpson of HMS Egeria was reading Sir Walter Scott’s “Lady of the Lake” while re-surveying the area in the early 1900s. He named this feature after the poem’s heroine, Ellen Douglas, much sought-after daughter of banished Scottish aristocrat James Douglas. Despite the attentions of rebel lord Roderick Dhu and of Scotland’s King James V himself, she...

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