Porter Island

Porter Island (52˚57'00" 129˚34'00" E entrance to Pemberton Bay, S side of Dewdney I, Caamaño Sd), Porter Reef (52˚16'00" 128˚19'00" Entrance to Berry Inlet, Seaforth Channel, S end of Don Peninsula, NW of Bella Bella). James Porter (1822–1905) came to Victoria from England with his wife and two children in 1853, aboard the HBC supply ship Norman Morison. He was employed by the Puget’s Sd Agricultural Co, an HBC subsidiary, as a farm labourer on Constance Cove Farm in Esquimalt. Porter...

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