Ashe Head
Feature Type:Head (1) - High, prominent land feature extending into a sea or lake.
Status: Official
Name Authority: BC Geographical Names Office
Relative Location: E. side of Esquimalt Harbour, Esquimalt Land District
Latitude-Longitude: 48°26'26"N, 123°26'10"W at the approximate centre of this feature.
Datum: WGS84
NTS Map: 92B/6
Origin Notes and History:

Adopted 12 June 1934 on National Defence sheet 415a, Victoria, as labelled on British Admiralty Chart 576, 1862.

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

Named in 1847 by Lieutenant Commander James Wood, after Edward David Ashe, RN, 5th Lieutenant, HMS Fisgard under Captain John A. Duntze. Ashe was on this station 1844-1847; Lieutenant 1842; Commander 1865; retired 1866; died 1895.

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)