Colonial Despatches

Captain William Rowland was the owner and captain of the Georgianna.1 He arrived in Fort Victoria in 1851.2 Rowland is mentioned in this correspondence in reference to the shipwreck of the Georgianna and the possible hostage situation on Haida Gwaii.

• 1. Elwood Evans, History of the Pacific Northwest, vol. 1, Oregon and Washington (Portland: North Pacific History Company, 1889), 343.
• 2. Ibid.