Parsons Anchorage

Parsons Anchorage (52˚31'00" 128˚44'00" Head of Kitasu Bay, W side of Swindle I, NW of Bella Bella). Capt Robert Mann Parsons (1829–97) was a member of the Columbia detachment of Royal Engineers, which served in BC 1858–63. Like all RE officers, he was a graduate of the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich. Parsons was the only man in the contingent who did not volunteer to go to BC; instead, as an expert surveyor and highly skilled map-maker, he was assigned to the detachment from his...

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