| Feature Type: | Island - Land area surrounded by water or marsh. |
| Status: | Official |
| Other Names: | Colville Island |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | W side of Victoria Harbour, NE of Work Point, Victoria Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 48°25'36"N, 123°23'17"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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Colville Island adopted 1 May 1934 on National Defence sheet 415a, Victoria, as labelled on British Admiralty Chart 576, 1865 et seq. Spelling changed to Colvile Island 9 February 1973 on 92B/6, being the correct form of the family name. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Colvile Island labelled on 1848 & 1860 editions of Admiralty Chart #1897. Incorrectly spelled "Colville Island" by Captain Richards during resurvey of Victoria Harbour in 1861-62, and published on all subsequent charts. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named by the officers of the Hudson's Bay Company, and adopted by Captain Kellet upon surveying Victoria Harbour in 1846, after Andrew Colvile, deputy governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, 1839-1852; governor, 1852-56. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |