History
Louis Baillon, the Olympic field hockey player was born in Fox Bay on 5 August 1881. George Paice, the Commonwealth Games Lawn Bowls player was born in Fox Bay in 1941
In July 1918 James Innes Wilson (b.1882) settled on Fox Bay East Farm and became a successful and popular farmer. From 1909-1914 Wilson had been working for the British government as 'whaling inspector' (magistrate) on the Subantarctic island of South Georgia.
Fox Bay East Settlement was bought by the Falklands government from Packe Brothers in 1983, not long after the Falklands War. The rest of the farm was divided into three and sold privately, with the owners buying houses in the settlement.
From the 1880s until 1972, Darwin and Fox Bay had their own separate medical officers. Since then most medical care has been based in Stanley.
Fox Bay West was subdivided and sold by the FIC in 1985.
Businesses here have included a market garden, a fish farm (salmon) and a woollen mill, with "Warrah Knitwear".
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