Cache Creek, the former name, derived from the stream, which, according to an 1892 report, afforded shelter at its mouth for craft drawing not more than 2.1 metres (7 ft).

Once a month, early resident Daniel O'Connell would row his 4-metre (12 ft) boat to Shushartie for supplies, but allegedly paid with $20 gold pieces of unknown origin.

[3] To avoid confusion with the other Cache Creek, the post office opened in 1911 as Strandby, which was Marie Shuttleworth's hometown in Denmark.

Postmaster Skinner at Shushartie, who dropped off the Strandby mail monthly, jokingly called it "Stranded by the Sea".

To avoid travel by small launch in choppy waters,[9] residents soon demanded an upgrade to a wagon road.

[11] Near Daniel O'Connell's place, Peter Wold lived on Burnt Hill, a name evidencing an earlier forest fire.

Robert's family temporarily lived in a new house by the creek before moving 3 kilometres (2 mi) west to Sunny Bay.

[8] Later settlers were drawn by a land promotion on Burnt Hill, but the soil was poor, and the immigrants soon relocated to the fertile foreshore.

[12] The installation of government telephone lines along the trails connecting Holberg to Cape Scott, San Josef Bay, Sea Otter Cove and Shushartie[12] was completed in 1915.

Nowadays, the North Coast Trail, which links east to west, borders Shuttleworth Bight, where Strandby occupied the western end.