Compton Island is an island in the Queen Charlotte Strait-Johnstone Strait region of the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada, in Blackfish Sound to the east of Port McNeill[1] All of it and three small adjacent islands comprise Compton Island Indian Reserve No. 6, a.k.a. Compton 6.[2]
Name origin
Compton Island was named about 1866 by Captain Pender for Pym Nevin Compton of Hampshire. From a Quaker family, she came to Victoria in the employ of the Hudson's Bay Company, working as a clerk. He was serving as a trading clerk on the Labouchere when he was taken captive by natives in Alaska in August 1862.[3] He was stationed at Port Simpson (Lax Kw'alaams today) and at Fort Rupert where he was in charge. He returned to England in 1866 on the Hudson's Bay's <i>Prince of Wales</i>, but a few years later was in California, returning to Victoria afterwards, where he dies in 1879.[4] Compton Point at the entrance to Wells Passage was also named for him.[5]
See also
References
- ^ BC Names/GeoBC entry "Compton Island"
- ^ BC Names/GeoBC entry "Compton Island 6 (Indian reserve)"
- ^ Victoria Colonist, August 23, 1862
- ^ British Columbia Coast Names, 1592-1906: their origin and history, John T. Walbran, Ottawa, 1909 (republished for the Vancouver Public Library by J.J. Douglas Ltd, Vancouver, 1971), quoted in the BC Names entry.
- ^ BC Names/GeoBC entry "Compton Point"
50°35′41″N 126°41′00″W / 50.59472°N 126.68333°W
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