| Feature Type: | Bay - Water area in an indentation of the shoreline of a sea, lake, or large river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | N side City of Nanaimo, Nanaimo Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°12'08"N, 123°57'17"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 in the 10th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 30 June 1911. Labelled "Departure Harbour" on J.D. Pemberton's 1852 map. Pemberton's 1855 edition, South Eastern Districts of Vancouver Island, labels Departure Bay. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"Named by officers of the Hudson's Bay Company c1852, because a tribe of Indians had recently quitted the bay, and by reason of it being a good place from which shipping could depart. Indian name "Tslalup", meaning "country around Nanaimo"." (April 1859 correspondence from B.W. Pearse F/13-4/59-1) (note that BC card does not specify which Archive this accession number refers to). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |