Welsford Islands

Welsford Islands (50˚13'00" 125˚08'00" Part of the Settlers Group, N end of Hoskyn Channel, between Read I and Quadra I, NE of Campbell R). The Liverpool shipping firm of J H Welsford & Co Ltd bought control of BC’s Union Steamship Co in 1911. James Hugh Welsford (1864–1917), the principal owner, was a dynamic figure in British shipping circles. By age 36 he had acquired a fleet of nine cargo vessels and carried cotton from Galveston, Texas, to Liverpool under the name Gulf Transport...

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