Eberts Cove


Eberts Cove (51˚49'27" 127˚21'35" E side of Moses Inlet, N of Rivers Inlet). Lawyer and politician David MacEwen Eberts (1850–1924) came to BC from Ont. In 1884, at Victoria, he married Mabel Hope Charles (1860–1931), who was born at Ft Hope, the daughter of HBC official William Charles. Eberts was elected a Conservative MLA for Victoria, 1890–1903, and Saanich, 1907–16, and served as BC’s attorney gen in 1895–98 and 1900–1903. A 1901 editorial in the Province declared that...

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