Cape Scott

Cape Scott (50˚47'00" 128˚26'00" NW tip of Vancouver I), Scott Channel (50˚47'00" 128˚28'00" Between Cape Scott and Cox I), Scott Islands (50˚48'00" 128˚50'00" W of Cape Scott). David Scott (1746–1805) was a Bombay merchant who financed one of the earliest fur-trading voyages to the BC coast—that of James Strange, with the Captain Cook and Experiment (1785–86). Scott was later chairman of the powerful E India Co (1796–97, 1801), though at the time of Strange’s expedition he was...

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