Brooks Bay

Brooks Bay (50˚13'00" 127˚53'00" N side of Brooks Peninsula), Brooks Peninsula (50˚10'00" 127˚45'00" Between Kyuquot Sd and Quatsino Sd, NW side of Vancouver I). In 1785 a British syndicate, the King George’s Sd Co (also known as Richard Cadman Etches & Co, after its main investor), was formed to trade to Nootka Sd. The company employed James Colnett, aboard the Prince of Wales, and Charles Duncan, on the Princess Royal, for a fur-trading voyage to the BC coast the following year. In Aug...

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