Pellow Islets

Pellow Islets (48˚44'00" 123˚21'00" Off E side of Portland I, N of Sidney and Saanich Peninsula). According to Tom Koppel, author of Kanaka: The Untold Story of Hawaiian Pioneers in BC and the PNW, this name refers to John Palua (c 1818–1907, also known as Johnny Pallow, Pellow, Palau or Polua). He was a Kanaka, or Hawaiian Islander, who came to BC about 1859 to work for the HBC and then lived on San Juan I in the 1860s. He married Sophie, the daughter of his friend and colleague William...

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