Madigan Point

Madigan Point (52˚11'00" 127˚54'00" SE end of Cunningham I, E of Bella Bella). Engineer Benjamin Madigan (1838–1920) immigrated to the US from Ireland as a young man and learned his trade at the Delamater Iron Works in NY. After working on steamships on the Cuba route, Madigan and his NY-born wife Margaret Francis (1838–96) moved to San Francisco and then to Victoria in 1862, where Ben found employment on the Diana and the Thames. He went on to become chief engineer on a number of...

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