1. Bella Bella / Chatfield Island / Dryad Point / Dufferin Island / Horsfall Island / Kididt Sound / Kliksoatli Harbour
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Its name is that of the local Indians, the Bella Bella (Bil-Billa or Bel-Bella) band. That name may derive from a Heiltsuk word meaning 'flat point(ed) , ' describing the village's orig. location on McLoughlin Bay near the HBC'S Fort McLoughlin (1833-43) |
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2. Bella Bella / Chatfield Island / Dryad Point / Dufferin Island / Horsfall Island / Kididt Sound / Kliksoatli Harbour (Bella Bella, 4km)
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Its name is that of the local Indians, the Bella Bella (Bil-Billa or Bel-Bella) band. That name may derive from a Heiltsuk word meaning 'flat point(ed) , ' describing the village's orig. location on McLoughlin Bay near the HBC'S Fort McLoughlin (1833-43) |
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3. Ocean Falls / Sir Alexander Mackenzie Park (Ocean Falls, 37km)
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Sir Alexander Mackenzie Park - Here Sir Alexander Mackenzie, having completed the first crossing of the continent north of Mexico, painted on a great rock, 'Alexander Mackenzie from Canada by land 22 July 1793.' |
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4. Bella Coola / Eutsuk Lake / Kitlope River ~ Lake / Labouchere Channel / Nieumiamus Creek / Nooskulla Creek (Bella Coola, 98km)
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From the Heiltsuk (Bella Bella) Indian word that means 'person from Bella Coola.' The word refers to the entire Bella Coola ethnic region, not to any village in particular. |
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5. Tallheo (Bella Coola, 98km)
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6. Taleomy 3 (South Bentinck, 102km)
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7. Elephant Crossing (Holberg, 168km)
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Elephant Crossing - Years ago a warrant officer from eastern Canada was transferred to the Canadian Armed Forces base at Holberg. |
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8. Holberg / San Josef Bay / Sea Otter Cove (Holberg, 168km)
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Holberg - Danish settlers who came here in 1895 named their settlement after Baron Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754), the distinguished Danish historian and dramatist. Holberg was the first writer to use Danish as a literary language. |
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9. Shushartie (Holberg, 168km)
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10. Winter Harbour / Commerall Point / Forward Inlet / Hansen Bay / Koskimo Bay / Macjack River / Palmerston Beach (Holberg, 168km)
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In 1862 Captain G.H. Richards gave the most northerly tip of Vancouver Island the name of Cape Commerell, after Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Edmund Commerell, GCB, vc. |
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11. Bull Harbour / Mexicana Point (Port Hardy, 166km)
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Mexicana Point - Named in 1792 by Galiano and Valdes after their little schooner Mexicana in which, with the Sutil, they circumnavigated Vancouver Island that year. |