Hernando Island

Hernando Island

Hernando Island is one of the Discovery Islands near Powell River, British Columbia, Canada. [BCGNIS|13911|Hernando Island] Along with the nearby Cortes Island, it was presumably named in 1792 by Valdez and Galiano after Hernando Cortes, the Spanish conqueror of Mexico. [Citation | last =Walbran | first = Captain John T. | title =British Columbia Place Names, Their Origin and History |url= http://www.nosracines.ca/e/toc.aspx?id=3545 | place=Vancouver/Toronto | publisher =Douglas & McIntyre | year =1971 | edition =Facsimile reprint of 1909 edition | isbn = 0-88894-143-9] rp|240

A narrow gauge logging railway operated there in the 1920s. The island is now mostly privately owned by a consortium of larger landowners. In the 1960s the entire island was valued at $55,000.

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