Colonial Despatches

Pelly Point marks the south entrance of the Fraser River on the side opposite Steveston. The point was named after HBC director Sir John Henry Pelly, who oversaw the merger between the HBC and the North West Company, negotiated land claims with the Russian government, and authorized many expeditions to Northern Canada.1

• 1. Andrew Scott, The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Placenames (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 2009), 455.