Murder Point


Murder Point (48˚46'00" 123˚09'00" S side of Saturna I, Gulf Is). It was here, in Apr 1863, that Frederick Marks and his young married daughter Caroline Harvey were slain by members of the Lamalcha band, a renegade Cowichan First Nation group from Kuper I. Marks and Harvey were in the process of moving from Waldron I in the San Juans to settle on Mayne I. Separated in a sudden squall from a second vessel carrying the rest of the family, they were forced to seek shelter on Saturna. Their...

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