Leighton Island

Leighton Island (52˚20'00" 128˚20'00" Entrance to Lambard Inlet, W side of Don Peninsula, NW of Bella Bella). Margaret Leighton (1849–1944), born in Moray, Scotland, immigrated with her family to Nevada and California, where her father had mining and steamship interests, and then, in 1863, to Victoria, where she attended Angela College. While visiting her uncle Thomas Buie, a magistrate and store owner at Lytton, she met Robert Burns McMicking (1843–1915), at that time the telegraph agent...

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