Port Renfrew

Port Renfrew (48˚33'00" 124˚25'00" SE side of Port San Juan, SW side of Vancouver I). The San Juan valley was settled by Europeans in the late 1880s and early 1890s, after the provincial government promised to build a road there from Sooke. A small community on Port San Juan (qv), originally known as San Juan, was apparently so often confused with San Juan I to the E that it was renamed Port Renfrew in 1895, possibly after the Prince of Wales (the future King Edward VII), one of whose titles...

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