Mayes Point

Mayes Point (50˚17'00" 125˚04'00" N tip of Read I, N end of Str of Georgia). In the 1860s, Lt Daniel Pender named many geographic features in this area after naval officers who served under Capt George Richards, hydrographer of the RN 1864–74. (Richards had been Pender’s predecessor as the primary RN surveyor on the BC coast.) William Mayes (d 1904) worked under several chief hydrographers, including Richards, as he spent 20 years in this dept of the Admiralty, retiring in 1885 as...

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