Roy

Roy (50˚31'00" 125˚32'00" S of Statham Point, SE side of Loughborough Inlet, N of Johnstone Str, NW of Campbell R). “I gave the name on spur of the moment when getting PO established. Reminiscent of ‘Rob Roy,’ my highland forbear.” So wrote Dugald McGregor, postmaster at the tiny mining and logging settlement of Roy, to Canada’s chief geographer, James White, in 1905. That year White had circulated a request for place name information to each post office in Canada. The Roy post...

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