Matilda Inlet

Matilda Inlet (49˚17'00" 126˚04'00" SE side of Flores I, Clayoquot Sd, W side of Vancouver I). Capt George Richards, with the RN survey ship Hecate, named this feature Matilda Ck in 1862, “creek” being an old term for a small cove or inlet that dries at low tide. The Matilda was a trading schooner that operated on the BC coast in the 1860s; in 1864, for instance, it took a large shipment of lumber to Victoria from the Burrard Inlet sawmill. Matilda Inlet was the scene of a massacre in...

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