Peters Narrows

Peters Narrows (53˚22'00" 129˚27'00" In Union Passage, between NW end of Farrant I and SE end of Pitt I). Capt Frederick Thornton Peters, VC, DSO, DSC (1889–1943), from Nelson, was one of Canada’s most highly decorated military men—and has been referred to as “the bravest Canadian of them all.” The son of Frederick Peters, a former premier and attorney gen of PEI who later moved to BC, he was born at Charlottetown, educated at Victoria and Nelson, and attended naval college in...

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