Mission Point

Mission Point (49˚26'00" 123˚43'00" S end of Trail Bay, just SE of Sechelt, Str of Georgia, NW of Vancouver). The name of this point, which is on the Tsawcome reserve of the Sechelt First Nation, presumably refers to the Roman Catholic mission established at nearby Sechelt by Fr Paul Durieu in 1862, at the height of one of the BC coast’s worst smallpox epidemics. Out of the thousands of Sechelt people who had inhabited the area earlier in the century, only 167 remained at the Sechelt...

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