McNiffe Rock

McNiffe Rock (50˚31'00" 127˚36'00" E of Drake I, Quatsino Sd, NW Vancouver I). The hydrographic service named this feature in 1927 after William McNiffe (1828–91), who received Crown grants of land in the vicinity in 1884. He was a native of Sligo, Ireland, and a very early immigrant to Victoria, arriving in 1858. In 1865 he married Annie Jane Irvine (1843–96), another Victoria pioneer, who had come there from the Orkney Is with her family in 1862. McNiffe was a hotelier and saloon...

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