O’Leary Islets


O’Leary Islets (50˚06'00" 127˚39'00" Entrance to Nasparti Inlet, Checleset Bay, just SE of Brooks Peninsula, NW side of Vancouver I). Capt William O’Leary (1853–1926), from NS, was a skipper with the Victoria-based sealing fleet. His wife, Alice McKenna (c 1860–1929), was from Cape Breton. He brought the schooner Pathfinder out from the E coast to Victoria in 1885 for owner William Munsie, and the following year he took it offshore so that federal officials could determine the...

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