Tasu Head

Tasu Head (52˚44'00" 132˚07'00" S entrance to Tasu Sd), Tasu Narrows (52˚45'00" 132˚06'00" Entrance to Tasu Sd), Tasu Sound (52˚47'00" 132˚03'00" W side of Moresby I, QCI). The sound, known as Tasoo (or Tassoo) Hbr in the early days, apparently takes its name from a longer Haida phrase meaning “lake of plenty.” Early US fur traders knew it as Port Montgomery, after Maj Gen Richard Montgomery, an Irish native, who was killed in the unsuccessful US attack on Que in 1775. There were many...

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