SS mary_dareMary Dare, 1850-1854
mary_dareMary Dare was a 149-tonne Hudson’s Bay Company brigantine.1 It arrived in Victoria in 1847, commanded at the time by James Cooper.2
This 1851 despatch reports that the master of the mary_dareMary Dare discovered gold on Haida Gwaii. Until returning to England in 1853, mary_dareMary Dare ran supplies between Fort Vancouver, Victoria, and Hawaii; during this time it was commanded by James Allen Scarborough and William Mouat.3
  • 1. Judith Hudson Beattie and Helen M. Buss, eds., Undelivered Letters to Hudson's Bay Company Men on the Northwest Coast of America, 1830-57 (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2003), 412.
  • 2. Ibid.
  • 3. Ibid.
Mentions of this vessel in the documents
The Colonial Despatches Team. SS Mary Dare, 1850-1854. 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/mary_dare.html.

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