Seymour Hill
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Seymour Hill, which appears as Mount Seymour on this 1864 map, is named in honour of Sir George Francis Seymour, who was the commander-in-chief of the Royal Navy’s Pacific Station from 1844 to 1848.1 Seymour Narrows is also named after Sir George Francis Seymour.2
  • 1. Andrew Scott, The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Placenames (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 2009), 538.
  • 2. Ibid.
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The Colonial Despatches Team. Seymour Hill. 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/seymour_hill.html.

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