| Feature Type: | Point - Land area jutting into a water feature; also used for a convex change in direction of a shoreline. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | South point of Victoria, Victoria Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 48°24'09"N, 123°20'56"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92B/6 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 1 May 1934 on National Defence sheet 415a, as labelled on British Admiralty Chart #1911, 1849 et seq, and as identified in BC map 2A, 1919 et seq. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"Named by Sir James Douglas, where he first landed from the Beaver in the vicinity of what is now Victoria, and named the point from the fact a large area of ground was found covered with a species of red clover, growing most luxuriously." [the white rhizomes of indigenous perenial clover were a nutritious vegetable for First Nations and large patches were tended like gardens, hence the lush appearance that Douglas noticed.] 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) |