Queen Charlotte's Islands,

Queen Charlotte's Islands, a group to the north of Vancouver Island, off the coast of British Columbia. Area, 5100 sq. m. The two principal islands, Graham and Moresby, have a length of 160 and a greatest breadth of nearly 70 miles. The climate is healthy, but very rainy. Anthracite coal, copper and iron ore, and gold-bearing quartz have been found, and forests abound. The inhabitants are about 2000 Indians, who engage in fishing. — Queen Charlotte's Sound is a strait separating Vancouver Island, on the north, from the mainland.