Minstrel Island

Minstrel Island (50˚37'00" 126˚19'00" E of Turnour I, junction of Clio Channel and Chatham Channel, entrance to Knight Inlet). Named, along with nearby Bones Bay, Negro Rk and Sambo Point, after a troupe of amateur performers aboard HMS Amethyst, which carried Lord Dufferin, the gov gen, and Lady Dufferin on a cruise to Metlakatla in 1876. These entertainers put on minstrel shows, based on black cultural stereotypes, and presumably such a show was staged in the vicinity for the vice-regal...

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