Jedway Bay

Jedway Bay (52˚17'00" 131˚15'00" S side of Skincuttle Inlet, SE Moresby I, QCI), Jedway Point (52˚18'00" 131˚14'00" Just NE of Jedway Bay). The name comes from the Haida word gigawai, meaning “entrance to a fish trap” or “snare.” Jedway Cr takes its name from the same source. Jedway Bay was the site of an important Haida village at the time of the 18th-century fur traders. In the 1910s and ’20s a Japanese saltery and abalone cannery operated there. The bay was also known as Lizzie...

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