Blubber Bay

Blubber Bay (49˚48'00" 124˚37'00" N end of Texada I, Str of Georgia), Blubber Point (49˚48'00" 124˚38'00" W entrance to Blubber Bay). The tip of Texada was a gathering spot for early whalers. Capt Elijah John Fader and his brother Silas Fader set up a primitive whale-oil rendering operation on the beach here in the 1880s, where the Sliammon First Nation village of Tah-lahk-natch was once located. The bay, named about 1874, is the site of a small community, a large and very visible limestone...

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