Burnaby Island


Burnaby Island (52˚23'00" 131˚19'00" Between Skincuttle Inlet and Juan Perez Sd, off SE Moresby I, QCI), Burnaby Shoal (49˚18'00" 123˚07'00" Vancouver Hbr, SE of Brockton Point), Burnaby Strait (52˚22'00" 131˚21'00" Between Burnaby I and Moresby I). Robert Burnaby (1828–78) was a British civil servant who came to Victoria in 1858 and found a position as secretary to Col Richard Moody, BC’s lt gov and commissioner of Lands and Works. He assisted with the laying out of New Westminster,...

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