Pelham Islands

Pelham Islands (53˚49'00" 130˚23'00" In Kitkatla Channel, W of Gilbert I, S of Porcher I and Prince Rupert). Samuel Pelham, a Tsimshian lay preacher and evangelist, was the first Anglican missionary to the Kitkatla First Nation, about 1880. He had been a hereditary chief before William Duncan, the famed Anglican missionary at Metlakatla, converted him in the early 1860s. He also worked as a preacher at Metlakatla, serving on the village council there and acting as 1st mate and capt of...

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