King Edward Bay


King Edward Bay (49˚22'00" 123˚25'00" W side of Bowen I, Howe Sd, NW of Vancouver). Named by James Frederic Malkin (1864–1950), who purchased land adjacent to this bay in 1910, the year that Edward VII died. Malkin was “a great imperialist,” according to Bowen I historian Irene Howard, one of three English brothers who immigrated to Vancouver in the 1890s and founded the wholesale grocery business W H Malkin & Co. William Malkin, the middle brother, was mayor of Vancouver in 1929–30....

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