Clover Point

When Hudson’s Bay Company Chief Factor James Douglas landed on the point in 1842, he named it for the acres of tall red clover growing "most luxuriantly." Douglas wrote to his friend James Hargrave: "I was...delighted in ranging over fields knee deep in clover, tall grasses and ferns reaching above our heads, at these unequivocal proofs of fertility." The fields were most likely Springbank Clover (Trifolium wormskjoldii), and the Coast Salish people cared for the clover, as well as Camas, a wildflower with a starchy edible bulb.