Mortimer Spit

Mortimer Spit (48˚46'00" 123˚15'00" NW end of S Pender I, Gulf Is). This name was adopted in 1969 after John Mortimer (1842–1921), from Scotland, who came to Canada in 1878 with his English wife, Nanny Opil (1841–1904). He was a stonecutter by trade and settled in Victoria, where he operated a stone yard and “marble works” from the early 1880s, initially with a partner named Reid. One of his quarries was near the isthmus between N and S Pender Is, which in those days were still...

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