Crease Island, formerly Lewis Island, is an island in the Broughton Archipelago Marine Provincial Park in the

Queen Charlotte Strait Queen Charlotte Strait is a strait between Vancouver Island and the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It connects Queen Charlotte Sound with Johnstone Strait and Discovery Passage and via them to the Strait of Georgia and Puget Sound. It for ...

Johnstone Strait Johnstone Strait () is a channel along the north east coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. Opposite the Vancouver Island coast, running north to south, are Hanson Island, West Cracroft Island, the mainland British Columbia C ...

region of the

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. It is located north of

Harbledown Island Harbledown Island is an island in the Central Coast region of British Columbia, Canada, located west of West Cracroft Island. It is at the west end of Johnstone Strait and lies at the eastern edge of the Queen Charlotte Strait region. Hanson I ...

and is at the southern extremity of the provincial park.

Name origin

The name Lewis Island was changed to Crease Island in 1905 to commemorate Sir

Henry Pering Pellew Crease Sir Henry Pering Pellew Crease (20 August 1823 – 27 November 1905) was a British-Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician, influential in the colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia. He was the first Attorney General of the united C ...

, (1823-1905). He emigrated to the Crown Colony of Vancouver Island in 1858 and served as

Attorney-General In most common law jurisdictions, the attorney general (: attorneys general) or attorney-general (AG or Atty.-Gen) is the main legal advisor to the government. In some jurisdictions, attorneys general also have executive responsibility for law enf ...

for ten years (1861-1971) before being appointed to the

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, retiring after 25 years, in 1895, with a knighthood. He died February 27, 1905.BC Names/GeoBC entry "Crease Island"
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