Roquefeuil Bay


Roquefeuil Bay (48˚52'00" 125˚07'00" E side of Trevor Channel, NE of Bamfield Inlet, Barkley Sd, W side of Vancouver I). Lt Camille de Roquefeuil (1781–1831), in command of the French vessel Bordelais, circled the globe in 1816–19 on a trading voyage, attempting to find new markets for France. The vessel spent two weeks in Barkley Sd, mostly in Grappler Inlet, in Sept 1817, then wintered in California and returned to the Alaska and BC coasts the following year, passing time in Haida Gwaii...

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