| Language of origin | English language |
| Feature Type: | Island - Land area surrounded by water or marsh. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | One of the Gulf Islands, NE of Saltspring Island at S end of the Strait of Georgia, Cowichan Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 48°50'41"N, 123°16'51"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92B/14 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Mayne Island adopted in the 5th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 30 June 1904, as long-identified on British Admiralty Charts. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named c1860 by Captain Richards after Lieutenant Richard Charles Mayne, RN, engaged in hydrographic surveys on this coast 1857-1861; died 1892.... (see Walbran for additional biographical detail) 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) |
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Lieutenant Mayne's journal, 17 February 1857 - 31 December 1860 (while he was aboard HMS Plumper under Capt Richards), is held at the Provincial Archives (manuscript E/B/M45; also a typed transcript E/B/M45A). Mayne's book "Four years in British Columbia and Vancouver Island: an account of their forests, rivers, coasts, gold-fields, and resources for colonisation" was published at London in 1862. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Halliday Island was the Hudson's Bay Company name for Mayne and Pender Islands. (from SHALE: Journal of the Gabriola Historial & Museum Society; Nick Doe editor) Source: included with note |