| Feature Type: | Channel (3) - Narrow stretch of water connecting two bodies of water. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Between Gabriola Island and E side of Vancouver Island at Nanaimo, Nanaimo Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°09'01"N, 123°51'22"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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Decision in the 18th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1924, as labelled on early British Admiralty Charts. Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |
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Named after Algernon Percy, 4th Duke of Northumberland, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1852. Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |
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Labelled Boca Wenthuisens on Galiano's 1792 chart of the Strait of Georgia, the name given the previous year by Narváez in honour of Francisco Javier de Winthuysen, a lieutenant-general in the Spanish navy. Spelled Winthuysen Inlet on early-1850s maps or charts (SHALE: Journal of the Gabriola Historical & Museum Society, Vol.1, No.1, pp 16,43.) (copy on file N.1.51) Source: included with note |