Page Lagoon

Page Lagoon (49˚13'00" 123˚57'00" SE end of Hammond Bay, just N of Nanaimo, SE side of Vancouver I). This geographic feature, more commonly called Page’s Lagoon, was the site of an important if short-lived whaling station. Built in 1907 by Victoria’s Pacific Whaling Co, it employed more than 125 men and managed to wipe out the entire humpback population of the Str of Georgia in three months. The facility then turned dogfish into fertilizer for four years before being dismantled and moved...

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