McKay Channel

McKay Channel (49˚10'00" 123˚55'00" Off S end of Protection I, Nanaimo Hbr), McKay Point (49˚11'55" 123˚55'25" NE side of Newcastle I, just N of Nanaimo), McKay Reach (53˚19'00" 129˚00'00" Between N end of Princess Royal I and Gribbell I, S of Kitimat). Joseph William McKay (1829–1900) was a valued and long-serving HBC official in the PNW. He was born at the fur-trading post of Rupert’s House on the W shore of Hudson Bay and came to Ft Vancouver on the Columbia R in 1844. Transferred...

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