Pelly Island

Pelly Island (48˚26'00" 123˚23'00" Victoria Hbr, SE end of Vancouver I), Pelly Point (49˚06'00" 123˚11'00" NW tip of Reifel I, S entrance to the S Arm of the Fraser R, opposite Steveston). Sir John Henry Pelly (1777–1852), son of an E India Co master mariner, was appointed an HBC director in 1806 and became gov in 1822, overseeing the company’s affairs after its merger with the NWC and until 1852. Pelly authorized a number of expeditions—by Peter Warren Dease, Thomas Simpson and John...

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