Hancock Point

Hancock Point (52˚14'00" 131˚08'00" S side of Carpenter Bay, SE end of Moresby I, QCI). The 142-tonne, Boston-based brigantine Hancock, under Capt Samuel Crowell, made three fur-trading voyages to the QCI, 1790–93. In the summer of 1791 its crew built a tender for their vessel—the first European-style boat constructed in Haida Gwaii—on nearby Maast I. That year, to honour both his ship and John Hancock (gov of Massachusetts and a leader of the American Revolution), Crowell gave the name...

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