Seymour Bay

Seymour Bay (49˚21'00" 123˚21'00" E side of Bowen I, NE of Cowan Point, Howe Sd, NW of Vancouver). Named after Alexander George Richard Augustus Seymour (d 1922), a cultured, well-educated bachelor who pre-empted land here in 1890, planted a garden and orchard, and lived as a recluse. “Agra,” as he was nicknamed from his initials, had the misfortune, according to Bowen I historian Irene Howard, to fall in love with a member of the nobility while working in England as a tutor. They could...

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