Wallace Island
| Feature Type: | Island - Land area surrounded by water or marsh. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | One of the Gulf Islands, off NE side of Saltspring Island in Trincomali Channel at S end of the Strait of Georgia, Cowichan Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 48°56'33"N, 123°33'08"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92B/13 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Wallace Island adopted in the 18th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1924, as labelled on BC map 2A, 1913. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named "Narrow Island" in 1859 by Captain Richards, RN, and so-labelled on British Admiralty Chart 579, 1860 et seq. Re-named by Captain John F. Parry, RN, upon resurveying the area in 1905; in association with Houston Passage, after Captain Wallace Houston, RN, HMS Trincomalee, who was on the Pacific Station 1853-56. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |