Cardena Bay

Cardena Bay (53˚59'00" 130˚10'00" S end of Kennedy I, S of Prince Rupert). Named after García López de Cárdenas, deputy to the Spanish conquistador Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, leader of a disastrous expedition to the SW US in 1540–42. Cardenas is said to have been the first white man to see the Grand Canyon; he was later tried in Spain for various genocidal crimes against First Nation groups and imprisoned. The Union steamship Cardena was named after the bay, not vice versa, as the...

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