Ohlsen Point

Ohlsen Point (50˚32'00" 127˚34'00" W entrance to Quatsino Narrows, Quatsino Sd, NW end of Vancouver I). Henry Albrecht Ohlsen (1867–1944) was told that he had TB and should move to a dry climate. Instead, in 1904 he perversely migrated from Iowa to the mouth of the San Josef R at the NW end of Vancouver I with his wife, Emma, their daughter and his mother. In 1908 he opened a general store and post office there, which became the centre of a small, mostly Scandinavian community that...

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