Scoones Point

Scoones Point (48˚52'08" 123˚18'37" SE end of Galiano I, Gulf Is). British seaman Alexander Edward Scoones (1876–1952) bought 2.5 ha of land at Mary Ann Point from the Burrill brothers in 1897 and settled down there for several years before returning to England to complete an engineering course. He then went to Brazil, and it was nearly two decades before he returned to Galiano, with his brother Paul Scoones (1875–1961), a retired mathematics teacher from Eton. A year later, Edith Isabell...

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