McBride Bay

McBride Bay (49˚51'00" 126˚43'00" NE side of Nootka I, W side of Vancouver I ). Named in 1926 by C L Roberts, who surveyed the bay for Arthur D McBride of Vancouver. McBride was involved with the construction of the Hecate cannery and pilchard reduction plant, built at the W entrance to the bay by the Gosse Packing Co and later owned by BC Packers. Hecate operated 1926–31, then closed and reopened from 1936 to the late 1940s, processing herring after the pilchards disappeared. The plant was...

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