Meiss Passage

Meiss Passage (52˚45'00" 129˚18'00" N entrance to Borrowman Bay, off NW side of Aristazabal I). This name was adopted in 1926 after Alexander Meiss (1864–1928), who was born at Victoria and, in 1896, became a saloon and hotelkeeper and general trader at Horsefly in the Cariboo district. He married Matilda Clara Gaspard (1870–1942) of Dog Ck in 1898. Meiss constructed the new, three-storey City Hotel at Horsefly in 1904. He was a member of the village’s first school board and acquired...

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