Carter Bay


Carter Bay (52˚49'00" 128˚23'00" N side of Sheep Passage at junction with Finlayson Channel, N of Bella Bella), Carter Point (52˚49'08" 128˚23'29" E entrance to Carter Bay), Carter River (52˚50'00" 128˚22'00" Flows S into Carter Bay). John Carter, a 24-year-old native of Surrey, England, was an able seaman aboard Capt George Vancouver’s HMS Discovery. In June 1793, while surveying Mussel Inlet in two of the ship’s boats, several crew members became very ill with paralytic shellfish...

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