Lock Bay

Lock Bay (49˚11'00" 123˚49'00" NE side of Gabriola I, Gulf Is). Nick Doe of the Gabriola Historical & Museum Society has suggested that this name, applied in 1859 by RN surveyor Capt George Richards, might have been intended to honour Michael Lock or Lok (c 1532–c 1621), a 16th-century English mercer, trader and adventurer. It was Lok who initially publicized Greek pilot Juan de Fuca’s claims to have discovered the Str of Anián, a hypothetical passage through N America that supposedly...

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