Colonial Despatches

Zayas Island lies west of Dundas Island and northwest of Prince Rupert.1 Pike, in command of the HMS Devastation in 1862, and Richards both travelled around Zayas Island in search of the murderers of Brady and Henley.2 Pike, who policed the coast of British Columbia, and Richards, who surveyed the British-American boundary, successfully captured the two First Nations who were involved in the murder.3 The island was named by Lieutenant Jacinto Caamaño, a Spanish explorer in 1792 who surveyed BC’s coast.4

• 1. Andrew Scott, Zayas Island, Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names.
• 2. Romaine to Under-Secretary of State, 3 February 1863, 1181, CO 60/17, p. 3.
• 3. Ibid.
• 4. Andrew Scott, Zayas Island, Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names.