Eliot Passage

Eliot Passage is a marine waterway between Village Island (E) and Pearl Island (W) in the Johnstone Strait region of the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada, southwest of the opening of Knight Inlet.[1] The Kwakwaka'wakw village of Memkumlis, also known as Mamalillaculla after the name of the group of Kwakwaka'wakw whose principal village it is, is on its eastern shore on Village Island.[2]

Name origin

The passage was named in 1866 by Captain Pender, then 2nd Lieutenant aboard the HMS Cleo under Captain Turnour.[3] Eliot served with the Royal Navy's Pacific Station from 1859 to 1862 and again in 1864 to 1868.[4]

References

  1. ↑ BC Names/GeoBC entry "Eliot Passage"
  2. ↑ BC Names/GeoBC entry "Memkoomlish"
  3. ↑ British Columbia Coast Names, 1592-1906: their origin and history, Captain John T. Walbran, John T, Ottawa, 1909 (republished for the Vancouver Public Library by J.J. Douglas Ltd, Vancouver, 1971, quoted in BC Names/GeoBC entry "Eliot Passage"
  4. ↑ 15th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1917 (supplement to the Annual Report of the Dept of the Interior), 1917, Ottawa, quoted in BC Names/GeoBC entry "Eliot Passage"

Coordinates: 50°37′25″N 126°35′09″W / 50.62361°N 126.58583°W