Spencer Cove

Spencer Cove (50˚30'04" 127˚52'34" N side of Koprino Hbr, Quatsino Sd, NW end of Vancouver I). Stephen Allen Spencer (1829–1911) received a Crown grant for land in this vicinity in 1884. He was born in Connecticut but came W about 1858 and sought gold in the Cariboo before settling at Victoria, where he operated a photographic studio (Oregon Hastings was his partner for several years). He also took many of the earliest photographs in the QCI and Barkerville. Spencer moved to Alert Bay in...

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