Billard Rock


Billard Rock (50˚26'00" 127˚58'00" Entrance to Quatsino Sd, W of Harvey Cove, NW end of Vancouver I). George Lewis Billard (1898–1987) was the coxswain of CGS Restless, a sounding launch used during the 1921 survey of Quatsino Sd. He was born at Victoria, where his father, a Nfld native, worked for the sealing industry. From 1945 to 1959, Billard served as capt and sailing master of the survey vessel William J Stewart, working especially in the QCI, Hecate Str and Queen Charlotte Sd, but...

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