Cape Scott
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Cape Scott is on northwestern tip of Vancouver Island. This exposed cape looks west to the open Pacific and north, across Queen Charlotte Sound, to Haida Gwaii, or the Queen Charlotte Islands. It was named after David Scott (1746-1805), Mumbai merchant, fur-trade financier, and, later in his career, chairman of the East India Company.1
Merchant-vessel Captains Lowrie and Guise named the point in 1786 while on a Scott-funded expedition to the region.2 In the late 1800s, Cape Scott was the site of an unsuccessful Danish settler colony.3 Cape Scott is now part of the Cape Scott Provincial Park, established in 1973.4
  • 1. Andrew Scott, The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Placenames (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 2009), 107.
  • 2. Cape Scott, BC Geographical Information System.
  • 3. Andrew Scott, The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Placenames (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 2009), 107.
  • 4. Ibid.
Mentions of this place in the documents
The Colonial Despatches Team. Cape Scott. The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871, Edition 2.0, ed. The Colonial Despatches Team. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria. https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/cape_scott.html.

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