Fleming Bay

Fleming Bay (53˚58'03" 130˚05'40" SE end of Telegraph Passage, S of mouth of Skeena R), Fleming Island (48˚53'00" 125˚08'00" W side of Trevor Channel, Barkley Sd, W side of Vancouver I). Fleming Bay was named Port Fleming in 1879 by Capt J C Brundige, who was directed to search out potential sites for a railway terminus on BC’s N coast. Brundige reported to civil engineer Sandford Fleming that this was the only place he could recommend “nearer the mouth of the Skeena River than Port...

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