Compton Island is an island in the Queen Charlotte Strait- Johnstone Strait region of the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada, in Blackfish Sound to the east of Port McNeill [1] All of it and three small adjacent islands comprise Compton Island Indian Reserve No. 6, a.k.a. Compton 6. [2]
Compton Island was named about 1866 by Captain Pender for Pym Nevin Compton of Hampshire. From a Quaker family, she came to Victoria in the employ of the Hudson's Bay Company, working as a clerk. He was serving as a trading clerk on the Labouchere when he was taken captive by natives in Alaska in August 1862. [3] He was stationed at Port Simpson ( Lax Kw'alaams today) and at Fort Rupert where he was in charge. He returned to England in 1866 on the Hudson's Bay's Prince of Wales, but a few years later was in California, returning to Victoria afterwards, where he dies in 1879. [4] Compton Point at the entrance to Wells Passage was also named for him. [5]
50°35′41″N 126°41′00″W / 50.59472°N 126.68333°W
Compton Island is an island in the Queen Charlotte Strait- Johnstone Strait region of the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada, in Blackfish Sound to the east of Port McNeill [1] All of it and three small adjacent islands comprise Compton Island Indian Reserve No. 6, a.k.a. Compton 6. [2]
Compton Island was named about 1866 by Captain Pender for Pym Nevin Compton of Hampshire. From a Quaker family, she came to Victoria in the employ of the Hudson's Bay Company, working as a clerk. He was serving as a trading clerk on the Labouchere when he was taken captive by natives in Alaska in August 1862. [3] He was stationed at Port Simpson ( Lax Kw'alaams today) and at Fort Rupert where he was in charge. He returned to England in 1866 on the Hudson's Bay's Prince of Wales, but a few years later was in California, returning to Victoria afterwards, where he dies in 1879. [4] Compton Point at the entrance to Wells Passage was also named for him. [5]
50°35′41″N 126°41′00″W / 50.59472°N 126.68333°W