Copper Bay

Copper Bay (53˚10'00" 131˚47'00" NE side of Moresby I, QCI). George M Dawson of the Geological Survey of Canada named this site in 1878 to recognize the 1862 mining efforts of English prospector Edmund Cosworth Waddington. Waddington, who was related to BC entrepreneur Alfred Waddington (see Waddington Bay), had come to Victoria for the Cariboo gold rush but ended up in the QCI instead, lured by earlier discoveries of copper in the area. He hired a crew and sank a 60-m shaft with two...

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