The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Royal Charlie
In 1860, while a number of different First Nations groups were camped at Victoria
for various reasons, including trade, and general curiosity, a group of Haida First
Nations fired upon the schooner Royal Charlie.1 Admiral Baynes sent two boats and 100 marines from the Ganges to confiscate the weapons of those involved.2
1. Barry M. Gough, Gunboat Frontier: British Maritime Authority and Northwest Coast Indians, 1846-1890, (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1984), 67-70.
2. G. P. V. Akrigg and H. B. Akrigg, British Columbia Chronicle, 1847-1871 (Victoria: Discovery Press, 1977), 206.