Rebecca Point

Rebecca Point (52˚23'00" 131˚17'00" E side of Burnaby I, off SE Moresby I, QCI), Rebecca Spit (50˚06'00" 125˚11'00" SE side of Quadra I, E of Drew Hbr, NW end of Str of Georgia). The 32-tonne Rebecca was the vessel that first brought mining engineer Francis Poole to the QCI’s Skincuttle Inlet area in 1862 in search of copper. The point was named by the hydrographic service in 1962, exactly a century later. Capt Elijah McAlmond of Dungeness, Washington, was the Rebecca’s skipper. He...

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