Duncan Bay


Duncan Bay (50˚04'39" 125˚17'43" Between mouth of Campbell R and Menzies Bay, E coast of Vancouver I), Duncan Bay (54˚21'21" 130˚28'06" W side of Tsimpsean Peninsula, W of Prince Rupert). Capt Alexander Duncan, from Falkirk, Scotland, was an employee of the HBC maritime dept, which he joined in 1824, spending his early years on the William and Ann and the Prince of Wales. He was master of the Dryad on its 1834 voyage to the Stikine R, where the Russians prevented the HBC from building a...

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