McGown Point

McGown Point (52˚13'00" 128˚15'00" N end of Horsfall I, Seaforth Channel, just NW of Bella Bella). James McGown (1863–1926), a native of Glasgow, married Jessie Meiklejohn Hoey (1864–1956) in 1888 and found work with the Canadian Pacific Line, settling at Vancouver in the early 1890s. In 1894 he was 3rd engineer on the Empress of India. He rose in the ranks of the company to become superintendent engineer with Canadian Pacific Ocean Services Ltd, a firm formed in 1915 when the Allan...

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