Quait Bay

Quait Bay (49˚17'00" 125˚51'00" NE side of Cypress Bay, N of Meares I, Clayoquot Sd, W side of Vancouver I). This Nuu-chah-nulth First Nation word means “calm,” according to regional hydrographer Henri Parizeau, who changed the name of the feature from Calm Ck in 1933. (A creek, in early Admiralty terminology, referred to a small marine inlet, often one that was dry at low tide.) The bay was the site of a shingle and sawmill in the 1920s and ’30s, operated by John Darville, from...

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