Grice Bay


Grice Bay (49˚06'00" 125˚44'00" Entrance to Tofino Inlet, S of Indian I, Clayoquot Sd, W side of Vancouver I), Grice Point (49˚09'00" 125˚55'00" NW point of Esowista Peninsula, Tofino). John Grice (1850–1934), from Newcastle upon Tyne, England, became one of the Tofino district’s first white settlers in 1891, pre-empting land at Grice Point. He learned to speak the Nuu-chah-nulth language and worked for the sealing industry, signing up First Nation hunters in the days when sealing was...

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