Yates Island

Yates Island (52˚10'00" 128˚05'00" Between Saunders I and Rainbow I, Lama Passage, just NE of Bella Bella). Named in 1925, possibly after Alfred E Yates, who built the sternwheeler Vedder at New Westminster in 1909 and ran it as a ferry on the Fraser R. The Vedder used the engines from another sternwheeler, the John P Douglass, which was destroyed by fire at the mouth of the Harrison R. In 1914 the Vedder went to Wrangell, Alaska, to join the Stikine R trade, but it was demolished in a blaze...

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