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- c. 1915
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- Deception Pass is a narrow, tidal passage between Fidalgo Island on the north and Whidbey Island on the south in Skagit and Island counties. Capt. George Vancouver named it Port Gardner in 1792 not knowing that the channel was open at the west end. When Joseph Whidbey of his command found the western outlet, Vancouver renamed it Deception Passage, because he had been deceived as to its nature, and named the island after his assistant who found the mistake. circa 1915.
- Printed on front: The Famous Deception Pass on the Route from Seattle to Bellingham. Puget Sound, Wash.