Martha Island


Martha Island (52˚20'00" 128˚22'00" Between Lady Douglas I and Lake I, Milbanke Sd). Martha Douglas (1854–1933) was the youngest daughter of Sir James Douglas, BC’s colonial gov, and Lady Amelia Douglas. She was born and raised in Victoria, then travelled with her sister Agnes Bushby to England, where she attended Landsdowne House school near Wimbledon, 1872–74. Martha married civil engineer Dennis Reginald Harris (1851–1932) in a splendid society wedding at Victoria in 1878, the year...

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