Protection Island

Protection Island (49˚10'44" 123˚55'12" SE of Newcastle I, Nanaimo Hbr, off SE side of Vancouver I). This feature was first named Douglas I, after Vancouver I gov James Douglas, by the officers of the HBC. In 1853 it became Protection I—a name descriptive of the island’s position, which shelters the harbour of Nanaimo. Coal mining ocurred there from the 1880s to the 1930s, and a quarry provided sandstone for the Nanaimo courthouse. Today it is a residential suburb of Nanaimo, but one that...

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