Colonial Despatches

Parry Bay is on the southeast coast of Vancouver Island, east of Sooke and south of Metchosin. Quimper had named it Rada de Solano in 1790, until Captain Kellett called it Parry Bay in 1846 after his friend, the legendary Admiral Sir William Edward Parry, who was a naval officer, Arctic and Northwest Passage explorer, and hydrographer.1

• 1. Andrew Scott, The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Placenames (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 2009), 448-449.