McBey Islets


McBey Islets (49˚07'00" 125˚49'00" In Tsapee Narrows, Browning Passage, SE of Tofino, Clayoquot Sd). Nellie Georgina Stewart (1883–1922) was born in the Shetland Is and acquired her love of the natural world from her father, a headmaster and botanist. She and her husband, Thomas Pert McBey (1875–1934), immigrated to BC and lived at Cameron Lk, where Nellie continued to pursue her interests as a naturalist, searching out and raising a variety of native plants. In 1920 she discovered the...

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