Echo Bay

Echo Bay (50˚45'07" 126˚29'48" W side of Gilford I, Broughton Archipelago, NE of Port McNeill). Echo Bay is an old name, applied by Admiralty surveyors in the early 1860s. On the N side of the bay, a 60-m cliff, marked with ancient pictographs, provides a fine surface for sounds to echo off. The Kwakwaka’wakw people once had a village on the bay but moved away during the smallpox epidemics of the mid-18th century. A non-Native floathouse community grew up in the early 1900s. Louie McKay...

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