Sager Islands


Sager Islands (52˚54'00" 129˚09'00" Entrance to Chapple Inlet, W side of Princess Royal I). William Sager (1887–1953) was the first doctor at the Belmont Surf Inlet Mines on Princess Royal. In 1918 his wife, Esther Mary “Hettie” (1887–1961, née Duckers), became the mother of the first child born at the mines (see Duckers Is). Sager emigrated from England to Canada in 1909, was ordained as a Methodist minister at Montreal and studied medicine at Queen’s Univ in Kingston, Ont. He...

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