Wales Point

Wales Point (48˚40'43" 123˚24'58" N side of Tsehum Hbr, just N of Sidney, NE end of Saanich Peninsula, N of Victoria). Charles Wales (1844–1906), a former English sailor, came to Canada in 1871 and worked as a fisherman and farmer. He built a log cabin at the head of Tsehum Hbr about 1885 and rigged a fish trap in the vicinity—a row of stakes in the mud that the fish could go over at high tide but could not escape from when the water level fell. In 1884, Wales and another man formed all...

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