Stockham Island

Stockham Island (49˚10'15" 125˚54'00" In Heynen Channel, between Tofino and Opitsat, Clayoquot Sd, W side of Vancouver I). Thomas Stockham (1859–1933) came to Canada from England in 1879 and worked at various trades, first arriving on the W coast of Vancouver I with a party of timber surveyors. In 1891 he and a partner, Walter Dawley (see Dawley Passage), built a store from salvaged shipwreck lumber on Stockham I opposite the Tla-o-qui-aht (Clayoquot) First Nation village of Opitsat on...

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