The Colonial Despatches: Galiano Island

Galiano Island

Galiano is a long, narrow island in the Gulf Islands group; its eastern shore looks out to the Strait of Georgia. Royal Navy surveyor George Richards named the island in 1859, after Spanish explorer Alcalá-Galiano.1

Europeans began to settle Galiano in the 1870s. Today, the 57 square km island is home to roughly 1000 people.2

1. Andrew Scott, The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Placenames (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 2009), 213.
2. Ibid.

Mentions of this place in the documents

Hamilton, George Alexander to Merivale, Herman 27 September 1852, CO 305:3, no. 8866, 269.
The Colonial Despatches: Alcalá-Galiano, Officer Dionisio
Parker, John to Hawes, Benjamin 24 October 1851, CO 305:3, no. 9092, 206A.
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People in this document

Alcalá-Galiano, Officer Dionisio

Richards, Captain George Henry

Places in this document

Gulf Islands

Strait of Georgia

The Colonial Despatches Team. Galiano Island. The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871, Edition 2.0, ed. The Colonial Despatches Team. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria. https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/galiano_island.html.

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Colonial Despatches

The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871

Galiano Island