Venture Banks

Venture Banks (54˚05'00" 132˚08'00" W side of McIntyre Bay, N of Masset, off N side of Graham I, QCI), Venture Point (50˚18'00" 125˚20'00" S side of Sonora I, Okisollo Channel, N of Campbell R). There were two W coast steamers named Venture, both originally constructed for the Boscowitz Steamship Co. In 1907, Capt Frederick Learmonth of HMS Egeria, while conducting a survey of the region, named the banks after the first Venture, which had grounded there the previous year. This 47-m,...

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