Lerwick Point

Lerwick Point (53˚51'00" 130˚00'00" N entrance to Kumealon Inlet, Grenville Channel, SE of Prince Rupert). Lerwick, the largest town on Scotland’s Shetland Is (and the northernmost town in the UK), was the birthplace of Robert Alexander Hunter (1866–1949), who joined the Canadian Pacific Navigation Co as a quartermaster in 1889. In 1896 he married Emma Eliza Ann Robson (b 1873) at Mayne I. In later years, Hunter became a capt with the BC Coast Steamship Service, a branch of the CPR, which...

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