Adopted 5 October 1946 on C.3668, as labelled on BC map 2C, 1919 et seq, in association with Brooks Bay.

Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office

"Named in 1862 by Captain Richards, HMS Hecate, after the name which Captain Duncan, of the trading sloop Princess Royal, gave in 1788 to the small inlet now known as Klaskish. Duncan anchored in port Brooks (Klaskish Inlet) 5 August 1788, on his way south from Queen Charlotte Islands (see Duncan's letter in Dixon's "Further Remarks")...." elsewhere "...Captain Richards gave Duncan's name of "Brooks" to the bay at the entrance of the inlet and to the peninsula forming the southern shore of the bay...." [note that this peninsula is shown but not labelled on the first edition of British Admiralty Chart 583, 1865; perhaps labelled on subsequent editions.]

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)

"In August 1787 Captain Colnett, commanding the Prince of Wales, a ship owned by the King George's Sound Company, discovered Nasparti Inlet and named it Port Brooks after one of the proprietors of the company. In 1862 Captain Richards named Brooks Peninsula and Brooks Bay north of it, apparently under the wrong impression that Klaskish Inlet, an easterly arm of the bay, was Colnett's Port Brooks." [note that Nasparti Inlet is on the SOUTH side of the peninsula; British Admiralty Chart #1917, published in 1849 from 1847 surveys by Captain Colnett clearly positions "Port Brooks" on the NORTH side of the peninsula]

Source: Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V; British Columbia Place Names; Sono Nis Press, Victoria 1986 /or University of British Columbia Press 1997