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 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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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 |
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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) |