Pedder Bay
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Pedder Bay is on the south coast of Vancouver Island, just to the southeast of the Sooke Basin, and east of Becher Bay. Captain Kellett named this narrowing bay in 1846, presumably, after his friend William Pedder, a former Royal Navy officer.1
  • 1. Andrew Scott, The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Placenames (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 2009), 454; John T. Walbran, British Columbia Coast Names (Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1971), 376.
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Kellett, Captain Henry

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Becher Bay

Sooke Basin

Vancouver Island

The Colonial Despatches Team. Pedder Bay. 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/pedder_bay.html.

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