Shoal Bay

SHOAL BAY, on E THURLOW ISLAND, looks onto Cordero Channel 200 km north of VANCOUVER. It began as a LOGGING centre in the 1880s, then was transformed by MINING developments in the 1890s that brought a transient population of several hundred expectant miners and camp followers. The ore petered out and most people moved away but the Thurlow Hotel, owned for many years by Peter and Rose MacDonald, was a coastal landmark until it burned in 1919. The post office here, open from 1896 to 1970, was...

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