Port Hardy
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Port Hardy is located on the northeastern shore of Vancouver Island, and looks out onto Hardy Bay. Both the city and the bay derive their name, along with other features in the vicinity such as Hardy Island and Hardy Peak, from Vice Admiral Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy (1769-1839), the man who heard Admiral Lord Nelson's final death-bed words, Kiss me, Hardy, during the Battle of Trafalgar, in 1805.1
  • 1. Andrew Scott, The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Placenames (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 2009), 249.
Mentions of this place in the documents
The Colonial Despatches Team. Port Hardy. 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/port_hardy.html.

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