Adopted 2 May 1911 as labelled on British Admiralty Charts (dates not cited)

Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office

"Named in June 1790 by Sub-Lieutenant Manuel Quimper of the Spanish Navy, in command of the captured British sloop Princess Royal, while on an exploring voyage from Nootka along the strait of Juan de Fuca."

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)

"Probably named for a presbítero [priest], Alejandro Jordán, a chaplain for Eliza. No mention of this name occurs in Quimper's diary. Quimper named this "Rio Hermoso" on 14 June 1790. [Hermoso] does not appear on any map that I have seen, having been probably changed to Jordan when the Carta Reducida was made by López de Haro [later] in 1790.

Source: Wagner, Henry R; The Cartography of the Northwest Coast of America; University of California Press, Berkley, 1937

Named by the Spaniards after Alejandro Jordan, the chaplain who accompanied Lieutenant Francisco Eliza to Nootka in 1790 and remained there for some time.

Source: Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V; 1001 British Columbia Place Names; Discovery Press, Vancouver 1969, 1970, 1973.

Headwaters at 48 34 - 123 34 on 92B/12.

Source: Canadian Geographical Names Database, Ottawa