Booth Bay

Booth Bay (48˚52'00" 123˚34'00" NW side of Saltspring I, Gulf Is), Booth Inlet (48˚52'00" 123˚32'00" Extends E from Booth Bay). These features were almost certainly named after John Patton Booth, the prominent, lifelong politician from Saltspring, who pre-empted land on both sides of Booth Inlet shortly after his arrival on the island in 1860—and not after Eric A Booth, who was one of the original 1859 group of black settlers on the island. John Booth (1838–1902) was born in the Orkney...

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