Joyce Island


Joyce Island (54˚06'00" 130˚40'00" Between Stephens I and Prescott I, Chatham Sd, SW of Prince Rupert), Joyce Rocks (52˚20'00" 131˚08'00" Entrance to Skincuttle Inlet, off SE Moresby I, QCI). Harrison Benjamin Joyce, a native of Swan I, Maine, was a master mariner with the New England Fish Co, which established a halibut fishery in Hecate Str in 1894. A fish-processing station was built on Joyce I; the halibut was packed in ice there before being sent to Vancouver, where it was forwarded to...

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