Thistleton Islands

Thistleton Islands (52˚30'12" 129˚02'49" Entrance to Weeteeam Bay, SW end of Aristazabal I). Lance Cpl James Thistleton (1837–83) was a member of the Columbia detachment of Royal Engineers, which served in BC 1858–63. In 1862, at New Westminster, he married Eliza Whitehouse (1840–1917), a dressmaker, who had recently arrived in BC with her family from England. Thistleton remained in the colony after the contingent was disbanded and was working as a tanner and currier at Sapperton in...

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