Tilly Point

Tilly Point (48˚44'00" 123˚12'00" S tip of S Pender I, Gulf Is). The origin of this name, which was applied as early as 1858 by RN surveyor Capt George Richards and which appears on an 1859 chart, is unknown. An alternative name for the feature, given about 1886 by island residents Arthur Spalding and Leonard Higgs, was Bilk Point. According to the memoirs of early S Pender resident Winifred Grey, the pair “were ‘bilked’ or fooled into rushing out in a boat, after dark, to rescue...

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