Spilsbury Point

Spilsbury Point (50˚00'00" 124˚56'00" NW tip of Hernando I, S of Cortes I, E of Campbell R, N end of Str of Georgia). Ashton Wilmot Spilsbury (1872–1960) came to BC from England in the late 1880s and bought his older brother’s homestead at Whonnock on the Fraser R, which he turned into a dairy farm. He married Alice Maud Blizard, from London, UK, at Vancouver in 1897. In 1914 the Spilsbury family moved to Savary I, where Ashton and Alice had spent their honeymoon, and for the next decade...

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