Snider Islet

Snider Islet (54˚16'00" 130˚26'00" Off W side of Digby I, Chatham Sd, just W of Prince Rupert), Snider Rock (54˚15'00" 130˚26'00" Just S of Snider It). Named after Jacob Snider (1811–66), a US inventor from Georgia who patented a method for converting muzzle-loading rifles into breech-loading models. The Snider-Enfield rifle was widely used by British forces throughout the Empire in the 1860s and ’70s. Snider died in Britain in poverty while trying to receive the government compensation...

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