Suquash

Suquash (50˚38'00" 127˚15'00" Just NW of Port McNeill, NE end of Vancouver I). Suquash is an adaptation of a Kwakwala term meaning “where seals are butchered.” The name was adopted by HBC officers after the first coal discovery on Vancouver I was made here in 1835. Some primitive mining took place about 1850, but better coal was found at Ft Rupert and Nanaimo. Despite its inferior quality, coal was extracted here commercially in 1908–14 and 1920–22 by Pacific Coast Coal Mines Ltd....

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