Millerd Point


Millerd Point (50˚15'52" 124˚57'30" N side of Redonda Bay, NW side of W Redonda I, Deer Passage, NE of Campbell R). Named in 2006 after RCAF flight sgt William Francis Millerd, from Vancouver, in association with the Millerd family’s cannery operation at Redonda Bay in the 1930s and ’40s. William Millerd was serving as a radio operator and gunner with No 408 (RAF) Squadron when he was killed in action on May 16, 1942, aged 24. He was flying his 11th mission, laying mines off the coast of...

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