Hansen Bay

Hansen Bay (50˚44'00" 128˚23'00" S of Cape Scott, NW tip of Vancouver I), Hansen Lagoon (50˚46'00" 128˚21'00" Head of Hansen Bay). Rasmus Hansen (b 1864), a Danish fisherman from Seattle, anchored in this bay in 1894 and was so impressed with the extensive tidal meadows that lay just inland that he determined to try to establish a Danish agricultural colony there. In 1896, with three other prospective settlers, he succeeded in persuading the BC government to make him a land grant. The Cape...

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