Lasqueti Island

Lasqueti Island (49˚29'00" 124˚16'00" W of the S end of Texada I, Str of Georgia). Spanish explorer José Narváez, in the Santa Saturnina, was the first European to see Lasqueti I, in July 1791. He named it Isla Texada, after senior naval officer Felix de Tejada. This name appears on the chart drawn by Juan Pantoja, the pilot aboard the San Carlos, the other vessel in the 1791 expedition. (Narváez originally gave the name San Felix to today’s Texada I.) Francisco Eliza, the overall...

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