Horton Bay

Horton Bay (48˚49'43" 123˚15'02" SE side of Mayne I, Gulf Is). Coastal historian Capt John Walbran claimed that this feature was named for Robert John Horton (1834–1912), who joined the HBC as a seaman and arrived in BC in 1861. He served on the Otter until 1865 and was later put in charge of the HBC’s fur dept at Victoria. Inconveniently, the name Horton Bay appears on an Admiralty chart published in 1861 but surveyed by Capt George Richards in 1858–60, before Robert Horton appeared on...

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