The Royal Fjord

Memories of Jervis Inlet

Ray Phillips

• Publisher: Harbour Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781550177084
• eBook ISBN: 9781550177091
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies
• Index: Social Sciences

The most accessible and popular of British Columbia’s great scenic fjords, Jervis Inlet punches 60 kilometres into the Coast Mountains a day’s cruising north of Vancouver. It deserves to be called the “Royal Fjord” on two counts: the long zigzagging watercourse is comprised of four segments all with “royal” names—Prince of Wales Reach, Princess Royal Reach, Queen’s Reach and Princess Louisa Inlet; and second, the inlet possesses a scenic majesty that has made it one of the prime boating destinations on the Inside Passage. Author Earle Stanley Gardner was so moved by the beauty of Jervis Inlet that he penned “There is no scenery in the world that can beat it. Not that I’ve seen the rest of the world. I don’t need to.”

Almost deserted now except for Young Life’s Malibu Club youth summer camp, Jervis Inlet was once the home of large Sechelt Nation villages and later, of innumerable homesteads, logging camps and fishing communities, and even the occasional hangout of golden-age Hollywood stars. That colourful past comes to life again in this new book by Ray Phillips, who grew up in the area and descended from local pioneers.

Featuring original photos and the rough-hewn memories of some of those early inhabitants, along with personal accounts by the author and his father, The Royal Fjord makes fascinating reading and fills an important gap in the written history of the BC coast.

Index

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Agamemnon Bay

Alcatraz Island (Caldwell Island)

All Red Line

Allen, Buster

Amscold family

Anderson, P.B.

Anderson Brothers (sawmill)

Anderson sisters

Angus, Gus

Archibald, Jimmy

Back Eddy Pub

Baggs, John

Baggs’ Bay

Baker (old man)

Baker’s Beach

Baramba Mines

Barrow, Amy and Francis

Baxter Pole Company

Beaver (Treat) Creek

Belmont mine

Bert (Bea Swanson’s cousin)

Betty L

Blind Bay

Bloomberg family

Bloomberg’s camp

Boom Bay

Booth Logging Company

Bosch family

Bosch Logging Co Ltd.

Boutilier, Herman

Brazil, Tom

Brittain River

Brown, Bill

Burch, Gerry

C & E Logging Ltd.

Caldwell Island (Alcatraz Island)

Campbell, Bob

Campbell family

Campbell River Museum

Captain Island

Casper, Herman

Charkay

Charlie (logging camp cook)

Chasina

Chasney, Miss

Chatterbox Falls

Chilco

Cline, John (John Klein)

Coates, Ben

Cockburn Bay

Cockle Bay

Cockrill Bay

Columbia Coast Mission hospital

Comox

Co-op Bay

Cougar Lady (Bergliot “Bergie” Solberg)

crab race

Crazy Olson

Crocker, Ed

Crosby, Fred

Crucil logging

Daly, John

Dangler

Davidson Marine

Day, George

Day, Pete

de Marrs, Sandy

Deberri, Slim

Deep Bay

Deighton, John (Gassy Jack)

Delta Rock

Deserted Bay

Diadem, Mount

Dougan brothers

Douglas family

Dray, Harry

Dubois, Ben

Dubois, Oliver

Dubois Logging

Durieu, Paul

Dusenbury, Roy and Doris

Earl family

Earls Cove

Edith (Bill McNaughton’s wife)

Edith (John Daly’s wife)

Egmont

Egmont Marina Resort

Eilel, Len

Electric Arch

Empress of Ireland

Emrick, Mr.

Erickson, Nels

Esto Utopia

Farrell, Barrie

Fenn family

Fielding’s log barge dumping and sorting grounds

fishing

fish farms

fish trap

oyster picking

See also individual companies and fishermen

Fisher, Lord

Fletcher (studied pictographs)

flume riding

Fontaine, Frank “Frenchy,” 8...

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Jervis Inlet
• Native Footprints
• My Dad’s Story
• Hotham Sound
• St. Vincent Bay
• The Hollingsworths
• The Laughlin and Heid Families
• Vanguard Bay
• Saltery Bay
• The Other Pioneers of Nelson Island
• Life on Alcatraz Island
• Westmere
• The Green Bay Area
• Mrs. Henry’s Timber
• Earls Cove
• Some Residents of Agamemnon Channel and Bay
• A Fishing Holiday
• Picking Oysters in Jervis Inlet
• The Silveys of Egmont
• Sechelt Inlet
• The Newcombe Brothers’ Story
• John Bosch
• Beaver (Treat) Creek in Prince of Wales Reach
• Logging at Beaver (Treat) Creek
• Vancouver Bay
• Lord Fisher
• Stakawus and Glacier Creeks
• The Brittain River Fire
• Oliver Larson at Osgood Creek
• Deserted Bay (Tsonei)
• A Wilderness Family
• Princess Louisa Inlet
• The Great Crab Race
• Malibu
• The Princess Louisa International Society
• The McNaughton Brothers
• Other Residents of Queens Reach, Jervis Inlet
• A Close Call
• The Whittaker Family
• A Change in the Weather
• Mining in the Jervis Inlet Area
• Log Barges
• Towboats
• Water Transportation to the Camps
• Epilogue
• Acknowledgments
• Index