Surprise Island

Surprise Island (50 ̊03'00" 127 ̊18'00" N of Union I, Crowther Channel, Kyuquot Sd, NW Vancouver I), Surprise Reef (49 ̊07'00" 125 ̊56'00" S of Wickaninnish I, SW of Tofino, Clayoquot Sd, W side of Vancouver I). The Surprise was a well-known early trading and sealing schooner on the BC coast, owned by capts William Spring and Hugh McKay. They acquired this 40-tonne vessel, built on Puget Sd, in 1859 and traded with it on the W coast of Vancouver I. In 1868 one of their skippers, James...

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