| Feature Type: | Former Locality - A once-populated place with no current population, or that is usually uninhabited |
| Status: | Not official |
| Relative Location: | Facing Shuttleworth Bight at extreme N end Vancouver Island, Rupert Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°50'14"N, 128°08'25"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 102I/16 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Strandby Post Office was opened 1 March 1911, situated at Sec 8, Tp 35; closed 17 May 1917. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named after a small coastal town on the northeast side of Denmark; presumably the ancestral home of an early settler at Cape Scott. Strandby Post Office and a store are located at the mouth of Cache Creek according to 1917 advice from L.S. Cokely (1917 Sessional Papers; reprinted in "Dreams of Freedon" by Gordon Fish, Provincial Archives' Sound Heritage Series # 36, 1982). "Strandby" is identified in BC Vital Statistics records until at least 1921 (marriage registration of Annie Dykes and Albert Edward Higgins, 27 August 1921, at Strandby, BC, registration # 1921-09-231019); by 1952 all traces of a settlement had vanished. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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The name suggested by early settler Ane Marie Shuttleworth, referring to the Danish village of her childhood. (April 2005 advice from North Island historian Ruth Botel) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |