Eliot Passage
| Feature Type: | Passage - Variation of Pass: Narrow stretch of water connecting two larger water bodies. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Between Village Island and Pearl Island, at SW end of Knight Inlet, Range 1 Coast Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°37'24"N, 126°35'09"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92L/10 |
|
|
Origin Notes and History:
|
Eliot Passage (not Elliot) adopted in the 6th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 30 June 1906. Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |
|
Named in 1866 by Captain Pender, RN, after John Eliot, RN, 2nd lieutenant aboard HMS Cleo under Captain Nicholas Turnour. Source: Walbran, John T; British Columbia Coast Names, 1592-1906: their origin and history; Ottawa, 1909 (republished for the Vancouver Public Library by J.J. Douglas Ltd, Vancouver, 1971) |
|
...[Eliot] was on the Pacific station 1859-62 and 1864-68. Source: 15th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1917 (supplement to the Annual Report of the Dept of the Interior, 1917, Ottawa) |