Mansons Landing is an unincorporated community near the southern tip of Cortes Island, British Columbia, Canada.
It was originally the location of the Cortez Island Post Office [sic], which opened April 1, 1893 with Michael Manson as postmaster, and closed December 1, 1898. Michael Manson was a Shetland Islander who maintained a trading post along with his brother John from 1887 to 1895. He later represented to Comox riding in Victoria.[1]: 164 The post office was re-opened on May 1, 1904. The name was adopted into the provincial gazette as a steamboat landing and settlement on April 6, 1950. The post office had been renamed Mansons Landing Post Office on July 9, 1941.[2]
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edit- ^ Akrigg, G.P.V.; Akrigg, Helen B. (1986), British Columbia Place Names (3rd, 1997 ed.), Vancouver: UBC Press, ISBN 0-7748-0636-2
- ^ "Mansons Landing". BC Geographical Names.
50°04′N 124°59′W / 50.067°N 124.983°W
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