Stewart Point

Stewart Point (50˚35'00" 127˚35'00" E entrance to Coal Hbr, Holberg Inlet, NW end of Vancouver I). John Robertson Stewart received a very early Crown grant in the Quatsino district, dated 1872. He and his partner, W R Meldrum, were wholesale merchants at Victoria, with premises on Wharf St, and had been interested in the harbour adjacent to this point for 10 years. They had hoped, with the help of a British investor, to develop what was thought in the early days to be a valuable coal deposit...

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