St Margaret Point

St Margaret Point (54˚15'00" 133˚02'00" N side of Langara I, off NW Graham I, QCI). On July 19, 1774, the day before St Margaret’s Day, Spanish naval officer and explorer Juan Pérez became the first European to sight the BC coast. He named his historic landfall—off the NW tip of Langara I (qv) in the QCI—Punta Santa Margarita, and although he had peaceful contact with the Haida there, he did not go ashore. In 1793, Capt George Vancouver named the headland Point North, in association...

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