McGregor Bank

McGregor Bank (52˚25'00" 128˚32'00" Milbanke Sd, S entrance to Finlayson Channel, NW of Bella Bella). Named for Mary McGregor (b about 1820), who with her husband John (b about 1810) and three children came to BC from Ayrshire in 1849 on the HBC barque Harpooner. The McGregors were part of a group of Scottish colliers hired to work at the HBC’s Ft Rupert mines. In 1850, in response to the primitive living conditions and poor equipment, McGregor and his relative Andrew Muir went on what was...

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