Colonial Despatches

Strawberry Bay rests on the western shore of Cypress Island, which is in the Rosario Strait; it is part of the San Juan Islands group. It, as with Strawberry Island, was given its European name by Vancouver on June 6, 1792, in reference, presumably, to the abundance of wild strawberry that grew in the area.1

• 1. Lynn Middleton, Placenames of the Pacific Northwest Coast (Victoria: Elldee Publishing Company, 1969), 199.