| Language of origin | Not defined: Indigenous origin |
| 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: | SW side of Vancouver Island, between Nitinat Lake and Port San Juan, Renfrew Land District |
| Tags: | Indigenous |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 48°36'38"N, 124°45'05"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92C/10 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 3 April 1934 on C.3607 in association with Carmanah lighthouse, as identified on British Admiralty Charts from 1891. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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This is the headland that was named Punta Bonilla ("High" or "Bold" point) in 1790 by Sub-Lieutenant Quimper, which name was misapplied by Captain Kellett in 1846 to the next point eastward. A lighthouse and fog signal station was established at Carmanah Point in 1891, and subsequent editions of Admiralty Chart #1911, Approaches to Juan de Fuca Strait, noted: "shipwrecked mariners will obtain food, shelter and assistance at Cape Beale and Carmanah lighthouses, which are telegraph & signal stations". Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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An adaptation by the local navigators, and adopted by the Admiralty surveyors c1860, of the name of the Nitinat village Qua-ma-doa, situated close under the eastern bluff of the promontory. 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) |