Cadboro Bay


Cadboro Bay (48˚27'00" 123˚17'00" SE side of District of Saanich, N of Victoria), Cadboro Point (48˚27'00" 123˚15'52" E of Cadboro Bay). The HBC brigantine Cadboro was the first regular trading and supply ship on the BC coast. The historic vessel, only 17 m in length and 63 tonnes, was built in England in 1824 and arrived at Ft Vancouver on the Columbia R three years later. Sporting six guns, and with a picked crew of 35 men, it was the first ship to enter the Fraser R (in 1827, under Capt...

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