Norman Morison Bay

Norman Morison Bay (52˚12'00" 128˚12'00" NW side of Campbell I, just NW of Bella Bella). The Norman Morison (often misspelled Morrison) was an early HBC supply ship that made annual journeys between England and Victoria, 1849–53, under Capt David Wishart and brought some of Vancouver I’s first colonists to the W coast. The 36-m, 512-tonne vessel, built of teak in Burma in 1846 and rigged as a barque, was acquired by the HBC in 1848. It first arrived at Ft Victoria in Mar 1850, after a...

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