Reid Passage


Reid Passage (52˚18'00" 128˚22'00" Between Blair Inlet and Mathieson Channel, off SW end of Don Peninsula, NW of Bella Bella). Named after Elizabeth “Lillie” Reid (d 1873), youngest daughter of HBC master mariner James Murray Reid of Victoria (see Reid Island). She married RN officer William Blakeney, who served on the BC coast as assistant surveying officer aboard the hired HBC vessel Beaver and then returned to England, where he was chief paymaster to the hydrographic office (under Capt...

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