Belcarra Bay

Belcarra Bay (49˚19'00" 122˚55'00" SE side of Indian Arm, NE of Vancouver). Belcarra is from the Irish Gaelic and can be translated as “a lovely land that the sun shines on.” The name was bestowed in the 1880s by New Westminster lawyer and judge William Norman Bole, who was from Ireland, naturally, and who obtained a large piece of land in the area in a somewhat unusual way. He defended the previous owner, an Irish horticulturist named John Hall, against a charge of murder and got the...

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