| Feature Type: | Peninsula - Elongated projection of land into a body of water. |
| Status: | Official |
| Other Names: | Blinkhorn Island |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | NE side Vancouver Island, just E of Telegraph Cove, Rupert Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°32'33"N, 126°46'57"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92L/10 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Blinkhorn Island adopted 2 May 1933 on 92L/10, as labelled on British Admiralty Chart 581, 1867 et seq, and on BC map 2C, 1919. Form of name changed to Blinkhorn Peninsula 6 June 1952 on C. 3569, after receiving advice from Hydrographic Service that this feature is not an island - it is joined to Vancouver Island by a narrow neck of land (file Q.1.47). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named in 1861 by Captain Richards, RN, after Thomas Blinkhorn, JP, and his wife, Anne, who with Mrs Blinkhorn's niece (Miss Martha Beeton Cheney) had come out from England to Vancouver Island in the barque Tory, in 1851, as free and independent settlers (ie. not servants of the Hudson's Bay Company). Upon arrival, Mr. Blinkhorn took charge of a farm at Metchosin...... Source: Walbran, John T; British Columbia Coast Names, 1592-1906: their origin and history; Ottawa, 1909 (republished for the Vancouver Public Library by J.J. Douglas Ltd, Vancouver, 1971) |