Magin Islets

Magin Islets (50˚52'00" 126˚38'00" N of Stackhouse I, entrance to Kingcome Inlet, N of E end of Queen Charlotte Str). Probably named after Capt Thomas Magin (d 1873), who came to BC in 1859 in charge of a company of approximately 165 Royal Marines sent from China to preserve law and order in the young colony. The contingent was put under the overall command of Col Richard Moody, CO of the Columbia detachment of Royal Engineers, which arrived around the same time. The marines were mostly...

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