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Discovery of gold in the Queen Charlotte Islands in 1850, and then in the Thompson Country and Fraser Canyon in the later 1850s, led to wider encroachments and exploration by whites far beyond the locus of the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush of 1858-1861.
It includes the narrow, protected Strait of Georgia between Vancouver Island and the B.C. mainland, the Johnstone and Queen Charlotte Straits between Vancouver Island and the mainland, as well as a short stretch along the wider and more exposed Hecate Strait near the Queen Charlotte Islands.
Margaret B. Blackman (1944- ) is an anthropologist known for her work with the Haida First Nation of the Queen Charlotte Islands of British Columbia, Canada, beginning in the 1970s.
Primrose Adams (b. 1926 in Masset, Queen Charlotte Islands) is a Canadian First Nations artist from the Haida nation.
Newcombe began to interest himself in the botany of North America and made many trips to Haida Gwaii (formerly the Queen Charlotte Islands) by boat.
For the historical Haida chief in the Queen Charlotte Islands of British Columbia, see Koyah.
Upon his return, he settled in the Queen Charlotte Islands with his mother who had taken a job in Sandspit, on the Moresby Island.