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Prevost Island
Prevost Island is an island in the southern Gulf Islands of the South Coast of British Columbia, Canada, located east of Ganges Harbour and midway between the southeastern extremity of Salt Spring Island (W) and the southern end of Galiano Island (E). The island was named for James Charles Prevost, who was British Commissioner for the San Juan Island boundary dispute of 1859-1870 and captain of HMS ''Satellite''. Prevost Harbor on nearby Stuart Island, Washington is also named after Prevost and Satellite Island, within Prevost Harbor, is named after his ship. The ''Satellite'' played a critical role in the Lamalcha War in the same area in 1863. Most of the island was bought as a farm in the 1920s by Digby de Burgh, an Irishman from County Limerick, who used it to raise sheep, goats and cattle. His descendants still own much of the island, which is still primarily a sheep and cattle farm. A few smaller private homes were built on the northwest side of the island. G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satellite Island (Washington)
Satellite Island lies in Prevost Harbor on the north side of Stuart Island in the San Juan Islands of San Juan County, Washington, United States. It has a land area of and no resident population as it is a private island owned by the YMCA, which has five camping areas set up for its use. Two of the camps, Sunset Camp and Fellowship Camp, are used for overnight island trips by campers from YMCA Camp Orkila and are located on the western half of the island. Islander Camp is located on the east side of the island, and is used primarily by the Islander Teen Expedition, a kayaking trip which crosses into Canada's Gulf Islands. Mariner Camp is located on the east side of the island, near Islander Camp, and is used by the Mariner Teen Expedition, a sailing trip for teenagers. Satellite Island commemorates the ship (HMS ''Satellite'') captained by the British naval officer James Charles Prevost, who was stationed at Vancouver Island Vancouver Island is an island in the northeastern P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galiano Island
Galiano Island (Hul'qumi'num: ''Swiikw'') is one of the Southern Gulf Islands located between Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada. Located on the west side of the Strait of Georgia, the island is bordered by Mayne Island to the southeast, Salt Spring Island to the west and Valdes Island to the northwest. Galiano is part of the Capital Regional District Electoral Area G, and has a permanent population of 1,396 inhabitants as of 2021. Galiano takes its name from Spanish explorer Dionisio Alcalá Galiano, who explored the area in 1792. History Prior to the arrival of Europeans, Galiano Island was long inhabited by Indigenous peoples from the Penelakut First Nation as well as other Coast Salish peoples. Midden pits at Montague Harbour suggest at least 3,000 years of habitation, with one study dating the earliest signs of permanent occupation in the island's proximities to over 5000 years ago. A complex culture, heavily reliant on the native Cedar tre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Portlock is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Jenice Dena Portlock (born 1987), also known as Sabi, is an American pop singer, songwriter, dancer and actress *Joseph Ellison Portlock (1794–1864), British geologist and soldier *Nathaniel Portlock (c. 1748–1817), British ship’s captain, maritime fur traderand author See also *Portlock, Alaska Portlock (Sugpiaq: ''Arrulaa'ik'') is a ghost town in the U.S. state of Alaska, located on the southern edge of the Kenai Peninsula, around south of Seldovia. It is located in Port Chatham bay, from which an adjacent community takes its name. Nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Limerick
"Remember Limerick" , image_map = Island_of_Ireland_location_map_Limerick.svg , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Ireland , subdivision_type1 = Province , subdivision_name1 = Munster , subdivision_type2 = Region , subdivision_name2 = Southern (Mid-West) , seat_type = County town , seat = Limerick and Newcastle West , leader_title = Local authority , leader_name = Limerick City and County Council , leader_title2 = Dáil constituencies , leader_name2 = Limerick City and Limerick County , leader_title3 = EP constituency , leader_name3 = South , area_total_km2 = 2756 , area_rank = 10th , blank_name_sec1 = Vehicle indexmark code , blank_info_sec1 = L (since 2014)LK (1987–2013) , population = 205444 , population_density_km2 = 74.544 , population_rank = 9th , population_demonym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Digby De Burgh
Digby may refer to: Places Australia * Digby, Victoria, a town Canada * Digby (electoral district), a former federal electoral district in Nova Scotia (1867–1914) * Digby (provincial electoral district), a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia (1867–1993) * Digby County, Nova Scotia, a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia ** Digby, Nova Scotia, a town ** Digby, Nova Scotia (municipal district), the eastern half of Digby County England * Digby, Devon, a village in Exeter ** Digby and Sowton railway station, Exeter * Digby, Lincolnshire, a village and civil parish in North Kesteven United States * Digby, Ohio, an unincorporated community People * Digby (name), a given name and surname * Baron Digby, a title in the Peerage of Ireland * Digby (blogger), pen name of Heather Digby Parton, writer of the liberal blog Hullabaloo Military * Douglas B-18 Bolo, a bomber used by United States Army Air Corps and Royal Canadian Air Force * , a Royal Canadian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lamalcha War
The Hwlitsum or Lamalchi or Lamalcha are an indigenous people whose traditional territories were in the Gulf Islands of British Columbia, Canada. Their traditional villages were on Canoe Pass, which is known in their language as Hwlitsum, and on Kuper Island (called by them Lamalchi, another spelling of their name,) Saltspring Island and Galiano Island. The Lamalcha War On 20 April 1863, a shelling of their village on Kuper Island by the Royal Navy's HMS ''Forward'' led to a series of events known as the Lamalcha War or Lamalchi Affair. The reason for the shelling was the colonial authorities of the Colony of Vancouver Island believed the village was home to three men who had killed settlers. The Lamalcha wound up seizing the ship and sold it (Citation needed), leading to the protracted conflict. This episode was the only defeat of the Royal Navy in the era following the Crimean War to the opening of the 20th Century. During the war the Lamalcha evaded capture by various othe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Satellite (1855)
HMS ''Satellite'' was a wooden screw corvette launched on 26 September 1855 at Devonport for the Royal Navy. In 1856–1861 she served in the Pacific and in 1861–1865 she served off the south east coast of North America.. On 13 June 1860, she ran aground on a reef in the Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen .... Repairs cost £555. Between 1866 and 1870 she served on the China station, sailing home with the Flying Squadron. She was broken up at Devonport in 1879. References 1855 ships Ships built in Plymouth, Devon Pearl-class corvettes Maritime incidents in June 1860 {{UK-mil-ship-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pig War (1859)
The Pig War was a confrontation in 1859 between the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom over the Canada–United States border, British–U.S. border in the San Juan Islands, between Vancouver Island (present-day Canada) and the Washington (state), State of Washington. The Pig War, so called because it was triggered by the shooting of a domestic pig, pig, is also called the Pig Episode, the Pig and Potato War, the San Juan Boundary Dispute, and the Northwestern Boundary Dispute. Despite being referred to as a "war" there were no casualties on either side, aside from the pig. Background Border ambiguity The Oregon Treaty of June 15, 1846, resolved the Oregon boundary dispute by dividing the Oregon Country/Columbia District between the United States and Britain "along the 49th parallel north, forty-ninth parallel of north latitude to the middle of the channel which separates the continent from Vancouver Island, and thence southerly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Charles Prevost
James Charles Prevost (1810–1891) was an admiral in the British Empire, British Royal Navy. He was born in Bedhampton, Hampshire, England, the son of Rear-Admiral James Prevost and his first wife France née Haultain, and joined the navy in 1823 and by 1850 was a Commander (Royal Navy), commander aboard , flagship of Rear Admiral Sir Fairfax Moresby, whose daughter (Ellen Mary) he married on 18 October 1842, they had five children: * Ellen Louisa Prevost (1843–?) * James Charles Prevost (1846–15 May 1920) * Annette Prevost (1849–1916) married Henry Hildyard, General Sir Henry John Thoroton Hildyard * George Fairfax Prevost (1851–1940) * Edward Augustan Prevost (1855–?) He was the Commissioner for Britain in the negotiations to settle the San Juan boundary dispute, San Juan Island boundary dispute between British Columbia and the United States. Prevost became an admiral in 1880, and died in London in 1891. Prevost Island in the Gulf Islands of British Columbia and o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salt Spring Island
Salt Spring Island or Saltspring Island is one of the Gulf Islands in the Strait of Georgia between mainland British Columbia, Canada, and Vancouver Island. The island was initially inhabited by various Salishan peoples before being settled by immigrant pioneers in 1859, at which time it was renamed Admiral Island. It was the first of the Gulf Islands to be settled and the first agricultural settlement on the islands in the Colony of Vancouver Island, as well as the first island in the region to permit settlers to acquire land through pre-emption. The island was retitled to its current name in 1910. It is named for the salt springs found in the northern part of the island. Salt Spring Island is the largest, most populous, and the most frequently visited of the Southern Gulf Islands. History Salt Spring Island, or xʷənen̕əč, was initially inhabited by Salishan peoples of various tribes. Other Saanich placenames on the island include: ''t̕θəsnaʔəŋ̕'' (Beaver Poi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Island (Washington)
Stuart Island is one of the San Juan Islands, north of San Juan Island and west of Waldron Island in the U.S. state of Washington. The island is home to two communities of full and part-time residents, a state park, a one-room schoolhouse, and two airstrips (Stuart Island Airstrip - 7WA5 with a grass runway, and Stuart Island West - 2WA3 with a dirt runway). Facilities Two sites, both part of Stuart Island State Park, are on public lands. One is located near the center of the island, and another is on the western coast, the site of the Turn Point Light Station, a lighthouse guiding shipping in the busy waters of Boundary Pass to the island's north. Turn Point Light Station is on land administered by the Bureau of Land Management's Spokane District, Wenatchee Resource Area, Lopez Island Office. The lighthouse and nearby "Lover's Leap" are popular hiking destinations accessible by county road. Sheltered anchorages for boaters can be found in Reid Harbor and Prevost Harbor, wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ganges Harbour
Ganges, British Columbia is an unincorporated community on Salt Spring Island in the province of British Columbia, Canada. History Ganges Harbour, from which Ganges takes its name, was originally called Admiralty Bay but was renamed by George Henry Richards, Captain Richards in 1859 after , and indirectly after the Ganges river in South Asia. The ship was at the Pacific Station from 1857 to 1860 under the command of Captain John Fulford as flagship of Robert Lambert Baynes, Rear Admiral Robert L. Baynes. ''Ganges'' was the last sailing line-of-battle ship in foreign service. The first house on Salt Spring Island was built here in 1859 by the first group of 20 settlers that arrived on the island that summer. On 4 July 1860 the harbour was the scene of the killing of eight Heiltsuk, Bella Bella (Heiltsuk) people and the capture of three women and two boys for slaves by the Cowichan Tribes, Cowichans. A few days later, two Cowichans were beheaded, by a band from Kwakwaka'wakw, Fort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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