Maple Bay

Maple Bay (55˚25'20" 130˚00'40" E side of Portland Canal, W of Anyox, BC-Alaska border), Maple Point (55˚25'30" 130˚00'50" N side of Maple Bay). Only the small, scraggly Douglas maple (Acer glabrum) grows this far N. The Outsider Mine was established here about 1905 by the Brown Alaska Smelting Co of Seattle, which built aerial tramways and a substantial wharf in order to load and ship a rich copper-gold ore to its short-lived smelter at Hadley on Prince of Wales I in Alaska until 1908. The...

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