Pidwell Reef (52˚26'00" 128˚34'00" N end of Milbanke Sd, off S side of Swindle I, NW of Bella Bella). Named after Mary Jane Pidwell (1846–1900), who was born in PEI and travelled with her family overland to California and thence to Victoria, arriving about 1859. Her father, John Trevasso Pidwell (1811–67), from Cornwall, became an influential Victoria merchant before his accidental death at Esquimalt; he represented Saltspring I on Vancouver I’s colonial legislative assembly,...
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