Big Bay


Big Bay (50˚24'00" 125˚08'00" W side of Stuart I, mouth of Bute Inlet). This small logging and fishing community, also known as Yaculta Landing in its early days, became established after the arrival of early settler Anderson Secord in 1907. A school operated in the late 1920s. When residents lobbied for a post office in the 1960s, they argued that the established local name was Big Bay, not Asman Bay as the feature had previously been marked on charts (see Asman Point). In the early 2000s, a...

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