Stranger Passage

Stranger Passage (48˚41'49" 123˚23'34" Between Knapp I and Pym I, just NE of Swartz Bay and Saanich Peninsula, N of Victoria). Named by the hydrographic service in 1965 after Capt Frederick Lewis’s luxurious 34-m yacht Stranger. Lewis had come to BC from California in 1939 and purchased nearby Coal I, where he built a fine estate (see Lewis Bay). Stranger, the eighth (and last) yacht of that name owned by Lewis, used this passage regularly and was, in fact, the only large vessel to do so....

If you are already registered on KnowBC, login now to get access to the full article.

You may already have access to KnowBC through your school, university or library.

• Schools that subscribe to KnowBC
• Colleges and universities that subscribe to KnowBC
• Public libraries that subscribe to KnowBC

If you do not already have access to KnowBC, you can subscribe.