Port Clements

PORT CLEMENTS, village, pop 440 (2006), overlooks Stewart Bay on Masset Inlet about halfway between MASSET and SKIDEGATE on Graham Island, the largest of the QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS. The area was rich in SALMON and shellfish and there were prehistoric HAIDA villages in the vicinity. The early settlement, dating from 1907, was called Queenstown and was the centre of COAL mining activity. In 1914 the name was changed to Port Clements after H.S. Clements, a politician who brought government...

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