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Birch Bay is 2.5 miles wide with approximately 19.1 miles of marine shoreline.
Glaciers over one mile thick repeatedly covered this area during the ice age from
2,000,000 to 15,000 years ago. Hundreds of feet of clay, sand, pebbles, and giant
boulders carried by the moving glaciers accumulated here as warming temperatures
melted the ice. Once the ice melted, waves and winds from the Strait of Georgia
sculpted the bay into the forested bluff and cobble beach as we see it today.
10,000 Years Ago... after the glaciers receded, the Coast Salish People began
visiting summer villages at Birch Bay to exploit the local food resources such as
clams, crab, fish, berries, game and waterfowl hunting. Birch Bay was part of the
Coast Salish “homeland” and is vital to their cultural identification and material
existence. The Lummi called the area Straf-a-wa, which means “the place for
clams”. They dried and smoked the clams in large quantities to preserve them
for winter.
1792… Captain George Vancouver stopped in Birch Bay in 1792 following the
earlier Spanish exploration and promptly reclaimed the territory for England.
Since Vancouver’s ships outnumbered and outgunned the Spanish, the Spanish
withdrew.
Vancouver stayed on in Birch Bay to calibrate instruments used to map their
location and to brew beer, a common staple of the long voyages. Vancouver’s
botanist Archibald Menzies named the bay “Birch Bay” because of the thick
stands of birch trees that grew in abundance near the shore

On February 24, 1881, the Birch Bay Post Office opens. Though it will survive only 10 years, the community itself will grow into a pleasant resort destination. Birch Bay is located in northwestern Whatcom County, about 16 miles northwest of Bellingham. Beginnings Birch Bay was home to the Semiahmoo,...