Spring Cove

Spring Cove (48˚56'00" 125˚32'00" W side of Ucluelet Inlet near its entrance, NW side of Barkley Sd, W side of Vancouver I), Spring Island (50˚00'00" 127˚25'00" W of Union I, NW entrance to Kyuquot Sd, NW side of Vancouver I). William Spring (1831–84), a well-known BC sealing capt and trader, established a store on this cove in 1869. He was born in Russia, where his Scottish civil engineer father was working for a railway company, and went to sea at a young age, arriving at Victoria from...

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