Stuart Island

Stuart Island (50˚23'00" 125˚08'00" Mouth of Bute Inlet, N of Campbell R). Stuart I and Bute Inlet were both named in 1792 by Capt George Vancouver after Scottish nobleman John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, who was British PM in 1762–63. See Bute Inlet for more biographical detail. The island, which was first settled in the early 1900s—and which has been home continuously since then to a handful of loggers and fishermen—has two small communities: the main one at Big Bay (qv) on the W side,...

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