Bate Point
| 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: | S point of Newcastle Island in Nanaimo Harbour, Nanaimo Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°10'35"N, 123°56'09"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92G/4 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 4 October 1945 on Chart 381. Also Mark Bay. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Originally labelled "Reef Point" on British Admiralty Chart 573, 1862 et seq. Renamed by Canadian Hydrographic Service in 1939 after Mr. Mark Bate, JP at Nanaimo, 1906, and the city's first mayor. Mr. Bate held many of the 1852-53 Hudson's Bay Company despatch logs and copies of Governor Douglas' correspondence regarding the coal fields at Nanaimo, and these were made available to Captain Walbran in 1906 when he was researching his book "British Columbia Coast Names". Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |