Cape Beale

Cape Beale (48˚47'00" 125˚13'00" SE entrance to Barkley Sd, W coast of Vancouver I). John Beale, purser in the fur-trading vessel Imperial Eagle, under Capt Charles Barkley, was killed along with several other crew members in a 1787 First Nation attack at the Hoh R, on the W coast of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington. Trader John Meares claimed to have named this cape in 1788 and suggested that the Beale in question was Canton merchant Daniel Beale, his partner and a backer of early...

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