Malcolm Island
Malcolm Island is separated from the northeastern shores of Vancouver Island by the Broughton Strait, opposite Port McNeill.
The island was named after Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm (1758-1838), and at the turn of the 19th century it became the site of an attempted colonization by Finnish socialists, who formed the village of Sointula.1
  • 1. Andrew Scott, The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Placenames (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 2009), 355-56.
Mentions of this place in the documents
The Colonial Despatches Team. Malcolm 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/malcolm_island.html.

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