Thorp Point

Thorp Point (50˚35'00" 127˚37'00" S side of Holberg Inlet, SW of Coal Hbr, NW Vancouver I). Soren Thorp (b 1871) and his wife, Christiane (b 1871), were members of the Danish colony that settled and farmed Cape Scott at the NW tip of Vancouver I in the late 1890s. Their daughter Ellen was born there in 1899. Soren also received a Crown grant for land situated between Holberg and San Josef Bay in 1906 and may have become part of the short-lived community that flourished near the bay in the...

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