Bella Bella

Bella Bella (52˚09'43" 128˚08'42" On NE Campbell I and W Denny I on either side of Lama Passage, NE of Queens Sd), Bella Bella Islands (52˚10'00" 128˚07'00" Off NW Denny I). Bella Bella is an adaptation of the name of the Heiltsuk First Nation settlement originally established at McLoughlin Bay, where the HBC had a post, Fort McLoughlin, 1833–45. The name appears in the 1834 journal of HBC trader and medical officer William Fraser Tolmie as Bilbilla. Historians Philip and Helen Akrigg...

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