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-6- First mention of a proposed lighthouse for the Point Atkinson area comes in a communication from James Cooper, B.C. Agent, to the Department of Marine and Fisheries, B.C. Agency, Victoria dated IB November 1^72^ At this time the coast of British Columbia boasted only two liglithouses and a lightship at the mouth of the Fraser River; the two lighthouses being 2 those at Race Rocks and Fisgard, both dating from 1^60, The first proposed site for Atkinson light was on Passage Island ^named by Captain George Vancouver on June 14, 1792^ and lying approximately one and a half miles N.V/. of point Atkinson in the mouth of Ho^v^e Sound). Hov;ever, in spite of hav/ing surveyed this island for construction of a lighthouse, during a personal visit to it on the "Sir James Douglas", James Cooper, in his correspondence with the Department of Marine and Fisheries^ begs leave to drav/ the attention of his reader to 1. J. Cooper, B.C. Agent, letter to Department of Marine and Fisheries, B.C. Agency, Victoria, 26 August, 1^73 - Department of Marine, Superintendent of Lights office, Victoria. 2. E.F. Bush, The Canadian Lighthouse, Canadian Historic Sites Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History, Information Canada, Ottawa, 1974, P* 77* 3. J.S. Marshall and C. Marshall, Vancouver's Voyage, op.cit. p.37 4. J. Cooper, B.C. Agent, letter to Department of Marine and Fisheries, Victoria, 26 August, 1B73. op.cit.