Pike Point

Pike Point (53˚33'25" 129˚34'45" S side of Nettle Basin, Lowe Inlet, E side of Grenville Channel, E of Pitt I). Mark Pike (1861–1944), from Nfld, was a master mariner who moved to BC in 1890 with his wife, Lillie (1863–1924), and became a skipper in the Victoria sealing trade. In the mid-1890s he worked for William Munsie as capt of the City of San Diego, taking 1,043 seal skins in 1893 and 1,554 in 1894, most of them off the coast of Japan. Pike Point was formerly known as David Point...

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