Mount Paxton

Mount Paxton (50˚05'48" 127˚27'56" SE side of Malksope Inlet, just NW of Kyuquot Sd, NW side of Vancouver I). Henry Paxton (1856–1941), from England, first arrived in Victoria about 1880 and, as an experienced seaman, had no trouble landing a job with a sealing schooner. In 1886, as skipper of the Black Diamond, owned by Morris Gutman, he was warned out of the Bering Sea by US officials and later put in a claim for lost prospective income because of “molestation.” Harry, as he was...

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