Work Point
| Feature Type: | Point - Land area jutting into a water feature; also used for a convex change in direction of a shoreline. |
| Status: | Official |
| Other Names: | Wark Point |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | W side of Victoria Harbour, Esquimalt Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 48°25'25"N, 123°23'39"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92B/6 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Wark Point adopted 20 March 1907 on Ottawa file OBF 0023, as identified in Walbran's manuscript. Form of name changed to Work Point 5 April 1927, as had been labelled on Pemberton's 1855 map Southeastern Districts of Vancouver Island, and on British Admiralty Chart 567, 1864. (Ottawa file OBF 0023). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |