Lowrie Bay

Lowrie Bay (50˚42'00" 128˚22'00" S of Hansen Bay, N of Cape Russell, NW end of Vancouver I). This feature commemorates the master of the Captain Cook, whose name is now accepted by most historians to have been Henry Laurie, not Lowrie. Laurie was accompanied on his 1786 voyage—the second-earliest fur-trading venture to the BC coast after James Hanna’s daring effort of 1785—by Capt John Guise, aboard the tiny Experiment, and E India Co factor James Strange, who was in overall command of...

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