During his survey of south
Vancouver Island in the HMS
Herald from 1846 to 1847, Captain
Henry Kellett named the western shore of
Victoria Harbour West Bay.
1 In the 1930’s, hydrographer Henri Parizeau attempted to have the name changed to
Bolduc Bay, in honour of Jean Baptiste Bolduc, a Roman Catholic missionary who accompanied
Douglas when he came to
Fort Victoria in 1943; however, the Geographic Board of Canada rejected Parizeau’s request to change
the name.
2