Rolston Island

Rolston Island (50˚01'00" 127˚22'00" S of McKay Cove, entrance to Kyuquot Sd, NW side of Vancouver I). Charles Merle Rolston (1873–1947), from Ont, was the Vancouver regional manager for Imperial Oil in 1928, the year the company established a fuel station on this island for the community of Kyuquot. George Aitken, BC representative to the Geographic Board of Canada, wrote to regional hydrographer Henri Parizeau that “the Imperial Oil Co is most anxious to have a euphonious name, and...

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