Secretary (Donaldson) Island

Secretary (Donaldson) Island (48˚20'00" 123˚42'00" Off Iron Mine Bay, just SE of entrance to Sooke Inlet, S end of Vancouver I). This unusual double-barrelled designation results from the uncharacteristic persistence of a supposedly obsolete name. Secretary I was originally adopted by Capt Henry Kellett, who made an RN survey of this area in 1847, and may have been named as such even earlier, by HBC official James Douglas, though its derivation is not known. In 1859, Capt George Richards gave...

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