Piers Island
Piers Island is an island in British Columbia, Canada, located on the boundary of Discovery Passage, a waterway which with nearby Haro Strait forms the section of the Canada–US border separating the Gulf Islands in British Columbia, of which Piers is a part, from the San Juan Islands of Washington state.Name
The island is named for Henry Piers, a Royal Navy surgeon who served on and and at the Pacific Station, later Deputy Inspector of Hospitals and Fleets.History
In the early 1930s a portion of the island was a penal colony used to house Sons of Freedom
