Colonial Despatches

The Chatham Sound is a broad body of water off the northwest coast of Prince Rupert.1 It resides between Digby Island and Dundas Island and was named by Captain Charles Duncan after John Pitt, the 2nd Earl of Chatham and the 1st Lord of the British Admiralty.2 Captain Pike, while working to control illegal liquor trading in Fort Rupert, travelled through Chatham Sound in 1863.4 The lighthouse on one of the islands in Chatham Sound is the most northerly light on the coast.5

• 1. Andrew Scott, Chatham Sound, Encyclopedia of BC.
• 2. Ibid. Andrew Scott, Chatham Sound, Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names.
• 3. Ibid. Scott, Chatham Sound, Encyclopedia of BC.
• 4. Paget to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary), 29 June 1863, 6387, CO 60/17, 33.
• 5. Scott, Chatham Sound, Encyclopedia of BC.