Wakeman River


Wakeman River (51˚03'00" 126˚32'00" Flows S into Wakeman Sd), Wakeman Sound (50˚59'00" 126˚30'00" N side of Kingcome Inlet, NE of Broughton I and Port McNeill). The sound was named in 1866, by Lt Daniel Pender of the Beaver, after William Plowden Wakeman (1829–72), who came out to Victoria from London, England, in 1862, in the Tynemouth. He worked as a clerk in the naval dockyard at Esquimalt, 1866–72, and died in the naval hospital there. A Kwakwaka’wakw village on the Wakeman R was...

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