Lennard Island

Lennard Island (49˚07'00" 125˚55'00" SW end of Templar Channel, just S of Tofino, Clayoquot Sd, W side of Vancouver I). Named in 1861 by RN surveyor George Richards after one of BC’s earliest tourists: Charles Edward Barrett-Lennard (1835–74). He was a British cavalry lt and the grandson of Sir Thomas Barrett-Lennard, an eccentric baronet who was in the habit of dressing so shabbily that the police mistakenly detained him as a vagabond. Charles and his friend Capt Napoleon Fitzstubbs came...

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