Jessie Point


Jessie Point (50˚57'00" 126˚48'00" N side of Kenneth Passage, N of Watson I and NE end of Queen Charlotte Str). 
Named in association with nearby Mackenzie Sd (qv) after Jessie McKenzie (1844–82), second daughter of Kenneth McKenzie, manager of the HBC’s Craigflower Farm at Victoria (there is confusion over the spelling of this surname). McKenzie and his wife and children, who arrived at Ft Victoria in 1853 aboard the Norman Morison, were among the very earliest colonists on Vancouver...

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