| 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: | Just S of Snug Cove (ferry terminal) on E side of Bowen Island, in entrance to Howe Sound, New Westminster Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°22'29"N, 123°19'34"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92G/6 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 6 December 1951 on C.3586, as recommended by BC Geographic Division, not "Salmon Bay" as labelled on preliminary hydrographic chart. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Re-named to avoid confusion due to duplication, after Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Dorman, pioneers of Bowen Island. Mr. Dorman served in HM Indian Army serving with the army of Lord Roberts of Khandahar during the famous march to Kyber Pass. After a sojourn at Carlton Place, Ontario, he took part in construction of the CPR when its engineering headquarters were at Yale; after the facility was destroyed in the great fire at Yale, he moved to the coast in preparation for the February 1887 arrival of the first trains at Granville [soon thereafter re-christened Vancouver]. Later he was in charge of the first electric light plant at Vancouver. Family moved to Bowen Island c1913. Jacob Dorman died 6 December 1939, age 81; Mrs. Dorman died in 1948; Dorman family descendants still live on Bowen Island (September 1951 information). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |