Wingen Islets

Wingen Islets (49˚10'00" 125˚40'00" Off SW end of McCaw Peninsula, Tofino Inlet, Clayoquot Sd, W side of Vancouver I). Named by regional hydrographer Henri Parizeau in 1934 after Thomas Wingen (1864–1931), who pre-empted land on Grice Bay in 1896 and received a Crown grant for his property in 1920. He married Julia Christine Hansen (1869–1941) at Victoria in 1894 and operated a small sawmill on Grice Bay at the mouth of Kootowis Ck. Wingen became a building contractor and boatbuilder at...

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