Brown Channel


Brown Channel (50˚00'00" 127˚26'00" NW entrance to Kyuquot Sd, NW side of Vancouver I). Sealer and master mariner George D Brown (1834–1914), a native of Liverpool, went to sea as a 13-year-old boy, working on clipper ships and for the Cunard Line. After first visiting Victoria in 1852 on the Annie Moore, Brown settled there about 1870 and married Clara Ann Unsworth Crowther (1856–1946) in 1874. He worked for many years for the fur dealers Joseph Boscowitz and James Warren, prominent...

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