Cloak Bay

Cloak Bay (54˚11'00" 133˚01'00" W side of Langara I, off NW end of Graham I, QCI). Named in 1787 by Capt George Dixon of the Queen Charlotte, the first European trader in these waters, after the large number of superb sea otter cloaks he was able to obtain there from the Haida. Two years later, Capt Robert Gray, with the Lady Washington, also received hundreds of prime skins at this spot, trading for one crude iron chisel each, a bargain he boasted about repeatedly. However, the resentment of...

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