Whittaker Point

Whittaker Point (48˚34'00" 123˚29'00" Just SW of Willis Point and Smokehouse Bay, E side of Squally Reach and Saanich Inlet, NW of Victoria). Samuel Whittaker (1861–1955), from Manchester, England, immigrated to the US with his father in 1866 and lived at Rhode I and LA before coming to Victoria about 1878. In 1884 he married Christina Irvine (1858–1913), who was born on the HBC’s Craigflower Farm, and they lived at Smokehouse Bay (also known locally as Whittaker Bay) for nearly 30...

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