Genoa Bay

Genoa Bay (48˚46'00" 123˚36'00" N side of Cowichan Bay, SE end of Vancouver I). Probably named by early settler and trader Giovanni Baptiste Ordano (1838–1916) after his birthplace in Italy. Ordano travelled overland to California in 1856, then moved to BC and established the first store in the Cowichan district at Tzouhalem in 1858. He also had a store on San Juan I in the US and opened another branch at Cowichan Bay in 1868. Genoa Bay was the site of a large sawmill from the 1870s to 1925...

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