Bamfield

Bamfield (48˚50'00" 125˚08'00" On Bamfield Inlet), Bamfield Inlet (48˚49'00" 125˚08'00" E of Trevor Channel and Mills Peninsula, SE side of Barkley Sd, W side of Vancouver I). Bamfield is a corruption of the name of William Eddy Banfield, who arrived in BC in 1846 as a carpenter aboard HMS Constance. He left the RN in 1849, became a trader on the W coast of Vancouver I and was the first white settler at Barkley Sd. Banfield explored widely and collected ethnographic data on local First...

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