Colonial Despatches

According to this private correspondence, georgiannaGeorgiana of Sydney was a 41-tonne sloop owned by William Rowland of England. georgiannaGeorgianna sailed to Haida Gwaii in 1851 in search of gold. It was wrecked on the East side of Haida Gwaii and the crew were held by the Indigenous people.

demaris_coveDemaris Cove was charted as a Revenue Vessel by the US Collector of Customs Mr. Moses in order to rescue georgiannaGeorgianna’s remaining crew. According to Scott, Captain Balch, with the demaris_coveDemaris Cove, managed to safely ransom all the detainees.1

• 1. Andrew Scott, The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Placenames (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 2009), 55.