...reached forming the north point of a bay, which I named Berner's Bay. The south point of the bay I named Point Bridget." Berners was his mother's maiden name and Bridget her first name and St. Mary's Wiggenhall her birthplace. In the...
...the honors for the area don't stop there. It is thought that Captain Vancouver named the place after his mother, Bridget Berners. Now there's respect. And where does the annual Audubon cruise go? Berners Bay. Not just once or twice a season...
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