McPhail Point

McPhail Point (48˚36'00" 123˚31'00" W side of Saanich Inlet, NW of Brentwood Bay and Victoria). Angus McPhail (1809–84), a Gaelic-speaking HBC employee from Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, came to Canada in 1837, sailing from the Orkney Is to York Factory on the Prince Rupert and then travelling overland to Ft Langley, where he worked from 1838 to 1846. He married a First Nation woman there, who died giving birth to his first child, Anne. From 1846 to 1855 he was a dairyman at Ft Victoria,...

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