Robins Point

Robins Point (52˚09'00" 128˚04'00" E entrance to Kliktsoatli Hbr, N side of Denny I, just E of Bella Bella). Samuel Matthew Robins (b 1834), from Cornwall, came to BC in 1863 and worked for the Vancouver Coal Mining & Land Co, where he rose to become superintendent from 1884 to the early 1900s. The company took over the Nanaimo collieries—and a large portion of surrounding land—from the HBC in 1862. It laid out and sold building lots for a townsite at Nanaimo and established a number of...

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