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Hesquiat Harbour West Coast Vancouver Island.  Hesquiat Harbour is protected from westerly winds, and Hesquiat Bar, 24 feet deep, knocks down the Pacific swell.   Beware the bar in southeasterly; [...]

Arrived today off a transportation ship from Halifax two New 60′ Canadian Coast Guard Search and Rescue vessels. The two vessels, the CCGS Cadboro Bay and CCGS Florencia Bay, are [...]

San Pedro was an iron screw steamer that was launched in Philadelphia in November 1882 by the Wm Cramp & Sons Shipbuilding Company.  She was delivered to the Pacific Improvement Company of [...]

Mitlenatch Island.  Roughly west of Hernando Island, Mitlenatch Island appears to be an uninviting rock in the middle of the Strait of Georgia.  It is in fact a thriving and ruggedly beautiful [...]