Wouwer Island

Wouwer Island (48˚51'45" 125˚21'25" SW end of Broken Group, Barkley Sd, W side of Vancouver I). Alidor Vanden Wouwer (b 1867), a native of Belgium, came to Canada in 1889 and was naturalized in 1894. He received Crown grants for several properties in Barkley Sd between 1900 and 1925, including nearby Turret I in 1911; in the 1901 BC census he is listed as a farmer living at Port Renfrew. According to Barkley Sd historian R Bruce Scott, Wouwer later lived at Bamfield under the surname Vanden....

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