Mikuni Point

Mikuni Point (48˚49'00" 123˚12'00" NW side of Saturna I, Gulf Is). Named in 1969 for Kisuki or Kisuke Mikuni (c 1860–1910), a Japanese farmer and entrepreneur who lived on Saturna and Tumbo islands in the 1890s. He had been persuaded to come to Canada from Yokohama in 1884 by a Victoria merchant named Charles Gabriel, who made buying trips to Japan to supply his store, the Japanese Bazaar, which sold Asian specialty goods. Gabriel also acted as Japan’s consul at Victoria. Mikuni worked as...

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