Wishart Island

Wishart Island (50˚53'00" 127˚29'00" One of the Deserters Group, W of Deserters I, N of Port Hardy, Queen Charlotte Str). Named after a pair of stowaway sailors or “deserters” from the HBC ship Norman Morison, who were killed off the N end of Vancouver I in 1850 along with a third man. See Deserters Group for a fuller account of this incident, which resulted in two RN attacks on Nahwitti First Nation villages. According to a note at BC’s Geographical Names Office, a report by Capt R...

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