Pinkerton Islands

Pinkerton Islands (48˚57'00" 125˚17'00" N of the Broken Group, SE of Lyall Point, Barkley Sd, W side of Vancouver I). James H Pinkerton pre-empted land on Sechart Channel in 1891. As soon as he had received a Crown grant to his property, in 1895, he sold part or all of it to James Crawford Anderson, a local prospector and speculator. Anderson, in turn, sold the land to Sprott Balcom and William Grant, of the Pacific Whaling Co. They built BC’s first modern whaling station there, Sechart,...

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