McLellan Island

McLellan Island (53˚03'00" 131˚45'00" Off N side of Cumshewa Inlet, NE Moresby I, QCI), McLellan Point (53˚09'00" 132˚17'00" S side of E Narrows, Skidegate Channel, between Graham I and Moresby I). John McLellan (1875–1951), from London, Ont, worked as an assayer at Rossland and Port Simpson, 1900–1906. He then acquired the land at Mitchell Inlet (also known as Gold Hbr) where the HBC found gold and precipitated BC’s short-lived first gold rush in 1851–52. McLellan and his partner,...

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