| 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: | Head of Kitimat Arm Douglas Channel, in Kitimat (municipality), Range 5 Coast Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 54°01'12"N, 128°37'41"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 103I/2 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Originally approved in the 18th Report. Confirmed 4 November 1948 on 103/NE, 4 October 1951 on 103I, 5 March 1953on c.3743 and 2 April 1953 on c.3736. Source: Canadian Geographical Names Database, Ottawa |
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Labelled "Minnette Basin" on Department of National Defence sheet 617-18, Kitimat-Kitsumgallum, 1943. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named after the daughter of the Hon. Joseph I. Tarte (1848 - 1907), Minister of Public Works, Canada 1896 - 1902. Source: 18th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1924 (supplement to the Annual Report of the Dept of the Interior, 1924, Ottawa) |
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"The pre-contact Haisla village at the head of Minette Bay is called Zagwis, [identified in DIAND records as Jugwees IR #5] and the Minette Creek watershed comprises a traditional Haisla Raven clan stewardship area." (information contributed February 2007 by anthropologist James V. (Jay) Powell, Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia, Vancouver; consultant to Haisla Nation, 2000-present). Source: included with note |