Wishart Peninsula


Wishart Peninsula (50˚50'00" 126˚32'00" E of Broughton I, S of entrance to Kingcome Inlet, NE of Port McNeill). David Durham Wishart (1816–68), from Middlesex, was an HBC ship’s capt who commanded the supply vessel Norman Morison on its three early voyages between London and Ft Victoria, 1849–53. He married Eliza Deborah Broughton, a widow (née Hardwicke), in 1849, and that year was also made an honorary lt in the RN reserve. The Morison brought out many of Vancouver I’s first...

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