History
The inlet is part of the traditional territory of the indigenous Nuu-chah-nulth people. They called it Mowichat. John R. Jewitt, an Englishman who wrote a memoir about his years as a captive of chief Maquinna in 1802–1805, describes the area in some detail.
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