Pacofi Bay

Pacofi Bay (52˚50'00" 131˚52'00" Off Selwyn Inlet, W of Talunkwan I, E side of Moresby I, QCI). This name is an abbreviation for Pacific Coast Fisheries Ltd, a company headed by the flamboyant Alvo von Alvensleben, a Prussian nobleman, financier and alleged spy who was interned in the US during WWI. He built a fish-processing and reduction plant on the bay in 1909 that soon went out of business. A salmon saltery operated at the site, 1927–36, using the old buildings, and BC Packers built a...

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