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Deserters Group : ウィキペディア英語版 | Deserters Group The Deserters Group is a small group of islands in the Queen Charlotte Strait region of the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada, located off the northeast coast of Vancouver Island to the north of Port Hardy.〔(BC Names/GeoBC entry "Deserters Group" )〕 Deserters Island is one of the islands in the group, another is Wishart Island.〔(BC Names/GeoBC entry "Deserters Island" )〕〔(BC Names/GeoBC entry "Wishart Island" )〕 ==Name origin== The name refers to a group of eight men who had been crew on the ''Norman Morrison, a Hudson's Bay Company vessel, who deserted the vessel while it was moored in Suquash Harbour, upon hearing news of gold in the Cariboo. Two stories relate their demise at the hands of local natives, one saying that the natives had mis-interpreted the ship's captain's offer to pay money per head, which was taken literally and so the men were killed rather than taken captive and returned to the ship.〔Vivienne Chadwick, "How the Deserters Got Their Name", Victoria Colonist magazine 13 May 1962, p.2, quote in BC Names〕 Another says that HBC representatives at Fort Rupert had instigated the murders by offering a dead-or-alive reward, though Governor Blanshard in his report to London about the incident said the incident was "baseless".〔''Tales of Conflict'', Chapter 9: Fort Rupert Murders, pp 40-44, by B.A. McKelvie, published by the Vancouver Daily Province, 1949, quoted in BC Names〕 The deserters include a James Wishart, whom Wishart Island and the Wishart Peninsula are named for, and A. Willoughby, for whom Willoughby Rock, which is off the north side of the Deserters Group, is named for.〔(BC Names/GeoBC entry "Deserters Island" )〕
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