Seegay Islets

Seegay Islets (53˚37'00" 132˚25'00" In Juskatla Inlet, S of Masset Inlet, Graham I, QCI). Named by the hydrographic service in 1953 after Haida chief Seegay, a Raven crest leader who, on his deathbed in 1876, requested the presence of Anglican missionary William Collison at Masset. The great decline of the Haida population due to smallpox and TB had caused Seegay to reconsider his religious beliefs, and the openness of Chief Seegay to Collison’s presence in the QCI enabled the British...

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