Inverness 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 Smith Island and Tsimpsean Peninsula, Range 5 Coast Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 54°10'28"N, 130°11'18"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 103J/1 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted in the 18th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1924. Confirmed 8 July 1954 on 103 J/1. Source: Canadian Geographical Names Database, Ottawa |
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In 1876 the first salmon cannery was built at Woodcock's Landing by the North Western Commercial Company. Four years later it became the property of Turner Beeton & Company, and this firm changed the name to Inverness Cannery..... by the 1890's there were seven [salmon canneries] scattered around the Skeena estuary... Aberdeen on the north bank at the mouth of the Kyex River, Balmoral on the north shore of the Ecstall River..." (R.Geddes Large, The Skeena: River of Destiny, Mitchell Press Vancouver, 1957, p.33). Source: included with note |