Shushartie Bay

Shushartie Bay (50˚51'00" 127˚52'00" S side of Goletas Channel, opposite W end of Nigei I, N end of Vancouver I). The name is an adaptation of a Kwakwala word meaning “place to find cockles” and may have been adopted by HBC officials as early as 1838. The bay was a well-known refuge for fur-trading vessels and was also used by early US whalers, who buried several shipmates in the area in 1844. It was first surveyed in 1850 by William Dillon, master of HMS Daedalus, and named Port...

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