Prince Leboo Island

Prince Leboo Island (54˚27'00" 130˚59'00" SW of Dundas I, Dixon Entrance, NW of Prince Rupert). The Prince Leboo (also spelled Le Boo and Lee Boo) was a small, 50-tonne sloop present on the BC coast in 1792–94. It was commanded by a mariner named Sharp and was part of a fur-trading expedition led by Capt William Brown of the Butterworth (see Brown Passage). Brown and his vessels encountered Capt George Vancouver in Chatham Sd in 1793 and led HMS Discovery and Chatham to safe anchorage at...

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