Miles Island

Miles Island (52˚04'00" 128˚19'00" S of Stryker I, Raymond Passage, Queens Sd, W of Bella Bella). RCN officer George Ralph Miles, OBE (1902–51), from Halifax, was a cadet at the Royal Naval College of Canada in 1916 and a midshipman by 1919. In 1934, as a lt, he was appointed assistant director of naval reserves. His first command was the destroyer Saguenay (1939–41). In 1942–43, as a cdr, he was in charge of various Halifax shore establishments, then became the first CO of the new...

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