Naysash Bay

Naysash Bay (51˚19'00" 127˚21'00" N of Hickey Cove, Naysash Inlet), Naysash Inlet (51˚20'00" 127˚16'00" N side of Smith Inlet, N of Port Hardy). BC mariner and author John Walbran, who commanded the Canadian government lighthouse tender Quadra on the BC coast, 1891–1903, made a preliminary survey of Smith Inlet in 1903. He recommended to the Geographic Board of Canada that the First Nation name for the “gloomy,” narrow, unnavigable inlet be made official, and so it came to pass. W...

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