Forward Harbour was a cannery town in the

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region of the

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, located on the inlet of the same name, which is on the mainland side of Wellbore Channel, to the east of

Hardwicke Island Hardwicke Island is an island in British Columbia, Canada, measuring approximately . Geography Hardwicke Island lies directly off the coast of the village of Sayward and to the west of its neighbour West Thurlow Island. Hardwicke Island is lo ...

. Nearby on the same vicinity on the Mainland, though fronting on other bodies of water, are

Jackson Bay Jackson Bay / Okahu () is a gently curving bay on the southern West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand. It faces the Tasman Sea to the north, and is backed by the Southern Alps. It contains the settlements of Hannahs Clearing, Waiatoto ...

to the immediate north, off Sunderland Channel, and Heydon Bay, British Columbia to the east on

Loughborough Inlet Loughborough Inlet is one of the lesser principal inlets of the British Columbia Coast. It penetrates the Coast Mountains on the north side of the Discovery Islands archipelago, running about from its head at the mouth of the Stafford River to C ...

. Forward Harbour was named in 1865 for HMS Forward (1855), a Royal Navy gunboat commanded by Lieutenant Horace Douglas Lascelles. Names in Forward Harbour were all in honour of the Lascelles family, particularly Florence and Cust Points, which honour Lady Florence Cust, daughter of the 3rd

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and wife of Lieutenant Colonel John F. Cust.

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''Time Travelling - Coastal Canneries of BC'' website
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