Harness Island

Harness Island (49˚36'00" 124˚01'00" S of Bargain Bay, E side of Malaspina Str, NW of Vancouver). Named in 1945 after Arthur Creedon Harness of Victoria, a seaman and coxswain aboard the W coast survey vessel William J Stewart, 1935–39. In WWII he served in the Canadian merchant navy and was killed in action on Nov 23, 1941, aged 28, while 3rd officer of the US freighter Meridian (formerly the Dino, of Italian registry), which was torpedoed by a U-boat and sank in the N Atlantic, with the...

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