Pocahontas Bay


Pocahontas Bay (49˚44'00" 124˚26'00" NE side of Texada I, Str of Georgia), Pocahontas Point (48˚59'01" 124˚54'50" N side of lower Alberni Inlet, E of entrance to Uchucklesit Inlet, W side of Vancouver I). Pocahontas Point is named after the first merchant ship to arrive at the head of Alberni Inlet, in 1861, to take on a cargo of lumber from BC’s first export sawmill. Edward Stamp had established this pioneer, steam-driven facility—known as the Anderson Mill after the English family who...

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