Rum Island

Rum Island (48˚40'00" 123˚17'00" Just E of Gooch I, E of N end of Saanich Peninsula, Gulf Is). This tiny 4.7-ha island, which lies only about 1 km from the Canada-US boundary, supposedly served as a staging point for liquor smugglers crossing the border to Stuart I in Washington state during the Prohibition era. Renee Maccaud Nelson bequeathed the property to the BC government in 1978 and specified that it be called Isle-de-Lis for the wild lilies that bloom there in spring. Isle-de-Lis...

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