Thomsen Rock

Thomsen Rock (50˚53'00" 128˚05'00" W of Cape Sutil, off N end of Vancouver I). Peter Thomsen was one of four founding Danish colonists who came to the Cape Scott area in the mid-1890s and signed a land application to the BC government in 1896. He and his colleagues persuaded James Baker, the minister of Immigration, to provide free land and build roads, a dike and a school, provided that 75 settlers arrived over the first four years. Although the requisite number of colonists came, the...

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