Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
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Seymour Hill
Map
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 Place Names
(Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 2009), 538.
2. Ibid.
Mentions of this place in the documents
Moody, Colonel Richard Clement to Fortescue, 1st Baron Carlingford Chichester 14 January 1865, CO 305:27, no. 464, 364.
People in this document
Seymour
, George Francis
Places in this document
Seymour Narrows
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