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Khutzeymateen is a Coast Tsimshian word meaning 'in valley.'


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This is the Tsimshian Indian phrase meaning 'place of the wild rose with the small hips' and is now another name for Port Simpson. Before Fort Simpson was established here in 1834 by the HBC, the small island at Port Simpson was a camping ground of the Tsimshian people. Once the fort was built, hundreds of Indians arrived and built a village in the immediate vicinity.

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). After Lieutenant-Commander T.H. Larcom, who commanded HM gunboat Forward, 1868-9, at the end of her service on this coast.

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So named by Captain Vancouver in 1793 since he set up an observatory here to check the rate of his chronometers and correct his fixing of latitude and longitude.


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After Captain Pearse of the us Army, commanding the first American military post in Alaska, on Tongass Island, in 1868. This island was claimed by the United States but awarded to Canada in 1903.

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After Captain Aemilius Simpson, a native of Scotland and a distant relation of Governor George Simpson of the HBC.

Aemilius Simpson entered the Royal Navy in 1806 at the age of thirteen as a midshipman. He retired as a half-pay lieutenant in 1816. He subsequently joined the HBC and became superintendent of its marine department on the Pacific coast. In 1831, commanding the Dryad, he founded a fort at the mouth of the Nass River. When he died there, in September of that year, the new establishment was named Fort Simpson in his honour.

The original site proving unsatisfactory, Fort Simpson was transferred in 1834 to the site of modern Port Simpson. Captain Simpson's remains were disinterred from their grave outside the palisades of the original fort and were removed to the new post. Dr. Tolmie gives a vivid picture in his diary of drunken Indians rushing in to pillage the abandoned fort.

There was no Indian village at the site of the second Fort Simpson, but Indians soon moved in to be close to the trading post. When the HBC closed down its establishment, there was a considerable Indian settlement, which exists to this day under the name of Port Simpson. (See also Lach Goo Alams.) An interesting story gives Aemilius Simpson credit for the first apples to grow on our coast. At a dinner party shortly before he sailed from England, a lady put some appleseeds in his waistcoat pocket and told him, laughingly, that he must plant them when he reached his destination. Wearing the same waistcoat at Fort Vancouver, Simpson discovered the forgotten seeds, planted them, and saw apple trees soon grow.

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From the Tsimshian Indian word meaning 'humpback salmon' (pink salmon).