William Thomas Wallace Jr came from Scotland, and he introduced whaling to Bequia. Having worked on one of the New England whaling ships that came to the Caribbean chasing the humpback whale, Bill Wallace started his own shore whale fishery in the mid 1870s out of Friendship Bay. The Ollivierres from France followed suit [...]
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Bequia’s earliest permanent inhabitants, dating back to the beginning of the first millennium AD, were small groups of pottery-making Amerindians whose origins lay in the northern coastal regions of South America. These indigenous people were followed in around 1400 AD by another group, the Island Caribs, who along with their fellow [...]
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Beq·uia n. Largest and first of the chain of Grenadines Islands, the name Bequia comes from the Carib word meaning "Island of the Clouds".
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"June Field of the UK's Guardian newspaper included Princess Margaret on Bequia in their list of the 10 best beaches in the world"
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