Watts Narrows


Watts Narrows (53˚49'00" 129˚57'00" Entrance to Baker Inlet, Grenville Channel, opposite NE Pitt I). After Robert Watts Davies (1843–1903), born at Charlottetown, PEI, who served with the RN as a midshipman on the BC coast, 1860–62, before being promoted to lt in 1864 and cdr in 1878. He married Fanny Ramsbotham (1852–1945) in Sussex, England, in 1872, and died in Oxfordshire (see Griffon Point, as well). Robert’s brother, Sir Louis Davies, became Canada’s minister of Marine and...

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