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The sound, and many of the bays that make up
Hamilton Sound, was first frequented by Europeans in the eighteenth century. By the late 1700s the salmon fishery was very well established and operated by Trinity-Poole merchants such as Benjamin Lester and Thomas Street. During the 1820s, when many of
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the bays were being settled, Hamilton Sound was named after
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