Rouse Bay


Rouse Bay (49˚28'00" 124˚11'00" SE end of Lasqueti I, S side of Bull Passage, Str of Georgia). William Fredrick Rouse (1854–1932), a former smelter worker at Nanaimo, and his wife, Margaret, were early settlers on Lasqueti I. In the mid-1890s William married again, to Mary Ann Higgins (1873–1947, née Jaffrey), the former wife of another Lasqueti pioneer, Hugh Harry Higgins (see Higgins I; Lasqueti historian Elda Copley Mason says that the two couples exchanged spouses). William and Mary...

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