| Feature Type: | Bay - Water area in an indentation of the shoreline of a sea, lake, or large river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | N end of Texada Island in Strait of Georgia, Texada Island Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°47'54"N, 124°37'02"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92F/15 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 31 December 1945 on C.3591, as labelled on British Admiralty Chart 580, 1891, and on early BC Lands maps. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named in 1874, according to newspaper articles on file in Provincial Archives [Victoria Daily Colonist 1 & 3 April and 6 May, 1874 - see note #3]. Probably so-named because pots used for rendering blubber were found on the beach here; this entire area was a rendezvous for whalers in the early days. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"I was master of the Cariboo Fly last summer [1873]. I recollect taking her twice up to Burrard Inlet and Texada Island. The first trip was ... about the second week in July. The little log I kept was left behind in the steamer. Mr [Sewell] Moody, Adam Watson, and Van Bremer; I don't think there was any one else on board, besides Douglas Indians. We went up to the island, direct to the Northwest end, and stayed in that bay, part of two days, I think, and one night; this bay has since been named Blubber Bay." (Papers Relating to the Appointment & Proceedings of the Royal Commission for Instituting Enquiries into the Acquisition of Texada Island. British Columbia Sessional Papers, 1874: pp181-246; quoting evidence given by Capt. John Devereix, p.206). The name Blubber Bay was also used by other witnesses at the Hearings. Reports of the Hearings were published in the Victoria Daily Colonist of 1 & 3 April and 6 May, 1874. (excerpt from Sessional Papers and dates of newspaper articles located and shared by T. Galois.] Source: included with note |
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Commercial whaling was practiced in the Strait of Georgia 1866-1873. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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The Sliammon village, Tah lahk nahtch, was once located on the shore of this bay (Sliammon Treaty Society, March 2004) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |