Sheldon Islet

Sheldon Islet (53˚41'00" 130˚25'00" NW of Baird Point, off NW McCauley I, Browning Entrance, S of Prince Rupert). Rev Alfred Harold C Sheldon (1853–88) was appointed the resident Anglican missionary at Port Essington in 1884. He had trained as a doctor in England, then came to BC and ministered for several years in the mining camps of the Omineca gold district. In 1888, while returning from Port Simpson by canoe, Sheldon, Elizabeth Cunningham (the Haida wife of Port Essington entrepreneur...

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