Bargain Narrows
| Feature Type: | Narrows - Constricted section of a water body. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Between Sechelt and Francis Peninsulas, E side Strait of Georgia, New Westminster Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°37'06"N, 124°01'53"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92F/9 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 28 July 1945 on C.3579 and 4 October 1945 on C.3590, as labelled on BC Forest Service map, R60, No. 3 (no date cited). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Canoe Pass is the local name for Bargain Narrows (Sailing Directions, Vol I, 1973, p.182). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Indigenous name: Salaloose, "a little pass." Source: Provincial Archives of BC "Place Names File" compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions |