Eagle Bight

Eagle Bight (54˚32'03" 130˚15'40" E side of Work Channel, N of Prince Rupert). Capt John Costello Grave, in the HBC brigantine Eagle (along with Capt Aemilius Simpson in the Cadboro), helped determine the site for Ft Nass on the Nass R in 1830. The trading post, later renamed Ft Simpson, was established the following year by Simpson in the Cadboro. The 175-tonne Eagle was built at Lynn in Norfolk, England, in 1824 and purchased by the HBC in 1827. It first arrived at Ft Vancouver on the...

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