Smithe Point

Smithe Point (52˚20'00" 131˚19'00" S tip of Burnaby I, off SE side of Moresby I, QCI). William Smithe (1842–87) was BC’s premier and chief commissioner of Lands and Works in 1884, the year that Newton Chittenden was engaged to explore and report on the resources of the QCI for the provincial government. Smithe, an Englishman, came to BC in 1862 and established a farm near Cowichan Lk. He became a community leader and ran successfully as an MLA in the first legislature formed after the...

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