| Feature Type: | Bay - Water area in an indentation of the shoreline of a sea, lake, or large river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Just S of entrance to Alberni Inlet, E end of Barkley Sound, Barclay Land District |
| Tags: | Indigenous |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 48°54'08"N, 125°01'41"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92C/14 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 3 April 1934 on C.3627, as labelled on British Admiralty Chart 584, 1861 et seq, and as identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Nuumaqimyis is the Huu-ay-aht First Nations name for this location, referring to the bay itself or the collective name for 5 villages along the shoreline: Kuukswiis, Tl'isnachis, Maht'ii-as, Tl'itsnit and Cha cha tsi tsi us Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |
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"Main winter village of the Huu-ay-aht and their largest village. Huu-ay-aht moved here during the fall to harvest the salmon which was abundant prior to the coming of the white man." (Huu-ay-aht Place Names in the Chief Louie Nookemus historial accounts, c1964, shared September 2009 in the context of the Maa-nulth Treaty.) Source: included with note |