Whaletown

Whaletown (On Whaletown Bay), Whaletown Bay (50˚06'00" 125˚03'00" W side of Cortes I, N end of Str of Georgia). James Dawson of Victoria’s Dawson Whaling Co established a whaling station on the bay in 1869–70, where he and Abel Douglas supervised the rendering of whale blubber in large kettles or try-works. Dawson moved his operation to Whaling Station Bay on Hornby I in 1870 (see Whaling Station Bay), but he and Douglas, using the schooner Kate, had largely eradicated the local whale...

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