Metford Island

Metford Island (54˚15'00" 130˚22'00" Off entrance to Delusion Bay, S side of Digby I, SW of Prince Rupert). William Ellis Metford (1824–99) was a British engineer who designed a type of rifling used on the standard Lee-Metford and Martini-Metford service rifles of the late 1800s. He lived in India briefly in the 1850s but worked mostly in England, creating bullets and shells that were noted for their accuracy; many of his prototypes were adopted by the British armed forces. The names of...

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