Nordstrom Cove


Nordstrom Cove (50˚29'00" 127˚55'00" N side of Quatsino Sd, W of Koprino Hbr, NW end of Vancouver I). Two family groups by the name of Nordstrom were among the original founders of the Scandinavian colony of Quatsino. Christian Nordstrom (1847–1918), a native of Sweden who had immigrated to N Dakota, was the colony’s main organizer. He had attended the 1893 Chicago Exposition and met Jobe Leeson there, one of Quatsino Sd’s first settlers, who was trying to develop a community at Winter...

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