Marshall Point

Marshall Point (49˚47'00" 124˚38'00" S end of Limekiln Bay, NW end of Texada I, Str of Georgia). Capt George Vancouver gave this name to the “NW point” of Texada I (today’s Kiddie Point) in 1792 but provided no hint as to whom Marshall might be. Historian Edmond Meany has suggested that Vancouver may possibly have been honouring William Marshall (1745–1818), an agriculturist and author of books on the rural economy of England. In 1785 Marshall published a work on N American trees and...

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