Sahtlam Land District
| Feature Type: | Land District - A territorial division with legally defined boundaries for administrative purposes. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | SE side of Vancouver Island, between Quamichan and Cowichan Lake Land Districts |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 48°45'29"N, 123°50'04"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92B/13 |
| Related Maps: |
92B/12 92B/13 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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"Sahtlam is Indian for maple trees; there was a fishing station here at one time and it was surroundedby maple trees." (May 1959 advice from Walter Elliott, Tzuhalem Band). According to David L. Rozen in his "Ethnogeography of the Cowichan River, British Columbia", 1977, the name is from ts'ólho7em, "place of leaves". According to T.W. Paterson, "Saat laam" means place of green leaves. (Cowichan Valley Citizen, 16 November 2005.) Source: included with note |