Fitz Hugh Sound


Fitz Hugh Sound (51˚40'00" 127˚50'00" Between Calvert I and Hunter I and the mainland). William Fitzhugh was one of a group of British E India Co merchants living in Canton who also traded privately and were associates of John Cox and John Reid, the owners of the Sea Otter, Capt James Hanna’s ship. Hanna sailed from Macao to Nootka Sd and back in 1785 and was thus the first fur trader on the BC coast. He returned the following year and ventured farther N to Queens Sd, naming a number of...

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