| Feature Type: | Sound (2) - Arm of the sea or a lake; inlet. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Extends N from lower Kingcome Inlet, NE of Broughton Island, Range 1 Coast Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°59'04"N, 126°30'55"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92L/15 |
| Related Maps: |
92L/15 92L/16 92M/2 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 6 April 1950 on 92/NW, as labelled on British Admiralty Chart #581, 1867 et seq, and on Trutch's 1871 map of British Columbia, and on BC Lands' map 2C, 1919. Source: BC place name cards, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer & Geographical Names Office staff. |
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Named in 1866 by Captain Pender, RN, after William Plowden Wakeman, a clerk in the naval dockyard, Esquimalt, 1866-1872. Wakeman, a native of England, arrived at Victoria from London aboard S.S. Tynemouth, 17 September 1862; died in the naval hospital at Esquimalt, 1872. Source: Walbran, John T; "British Columbia Coast Names, 1592-1906: Their Origin and History"; published for the Geographic Board of Canada, Ottawa, 1909 (republished for the Vancouver Public Library by J.J. Douglas Ltd, Vancouver, 1971) |