Biography
A Royal Naval seaman of the Discovery who ate poisoned mussels and died 1793 on the coast of what is now British Columbia. The mussels were probably contaminated by red tide at what is now Poison Bay. All but Carter were convinced to drink hot sea water to induce vomiting and the others survived.
Military Service
He was appointed as an Ordinary Seaman RN.
He was appointed as an Able-Seaman RN. (He died while on active duty.)
Named Features
Poison Cove (Mussel Inlet) (by Captain Vancouver), Carter Bay (BC); Carter Point (BC);
Anecdotes
The photograph shows Shipwright Chief Petty Officer Howard Southan attaching a bronze commemorative plaque at the grave of Able-Seaman Carter about 1957.
References
- Walbran, Captain John T. (1909)
- BCELP Geographical Place Names Cards Correspondence To/From BC Chief Geographer
