Fisgard Island adopted 1 May 1934 on National Defence map 415a, Victoria, as labelled on BC Lands' map 2A, 1913.

Source: BC place name cards, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer & Geographical Names Office staff.

Labelled Fisguard [sic] Rocks on J.D. Pemberton's 1855 map South-Eastern Districts of Vancouver Island; labelled Fisguard Light on 1925 map of Victoria & District.

Source: BC place name cards, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer & Geographical Names Office staff.

"Named after H.M. frigate Fisgard, 42 guns, 1069 tons, on this station 1844-1847 under command of Captain John A. Duntze. When the survey of Esquimalt Harbout was made by Lieutenant Commander James Wood, H.M. surveying vessel Pandora, the points and islands in the harbour were named after the captain and officers of the Fisgard. The site for a lighthouse on this island was selected 10 August 1859; the building, designed by H.O. Tiedemann of the Surveyor-General's office, was completed in June 1860, and the light established on 1 December of that year. Built by the Imperial government at a cost of £3000. The iron stairway in the tower of the lighthouse is of a unique pattern, there being none like it on this continent except at Toronto. It was designed by John Wright, the builder of the tower, and was cast at San Francisco, the makers giving Wright the sum of $300 for the copyright of the design (Victoria Colonist, 9 June 1860 and 29 January 1861). The rock lying in the harbour entrance, close off Fisgard lighthouse, was found by H.M.S. Bacchante, flagship of Sir Thomas Maitland, striking on it while entering Esquimalt in July 1862 (Victoria Colonist 23 July 1862)."

Source: Walbran, John T; "British Columbia Coast Names, 1592-1906: Their Origin and History"; published for the Geographic Board of Canada, Ottawa, 1909 (republished for the Vancouver Public Library by J.J. Douglas Ltd, Vancouver, 1971)