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Art Sterritt, executive director of Coastal First Nations, stands aboard a 70-foot boat plying the waters near Prince Rupert and points across the Hecate Strait at a string of buoys marking spots where the seabed was seeded with juvenile scallops in 2012.

The quake was felt on the mainland in Prince Rupert, British Columbia, which is across the Hecate Strait from the islands.

Comparing the latter with Russel’s general map of North America, 1794, the Anian strait appears to coincide with the strait between Queen Charlotte’s Island and the mainland, the modern Hecate Strait.

Four specimens taken in Hecate Strait, July, 1904.

In Hecate Strait, between the Queen Charlotte Islands and the mainland, there were wonderfully productive halibut fisheries, from which a supply of fish was dried and packed away for the winter, so that there was always a store of provisions on hand.