Ella Point
| Feature Type: | Point - Land area jutting into a water feature; also used for a convex change in direction of a shoreline. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | S shore of Johnstone Strait just E of Telegraph Cove (community), E of Port McNeill (municipality), Rupert Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°33'01"N, 126°49'38"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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Adopted 2 May 1933 on Geological Survey sheet for Alert Bay 92L/7 & 92L/10, as labelled on BC Lands' map 2C, 1919. (file N.1.33) Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |
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Named in 1861 by Captain Richards, RN, after Captain Henry Bailey Ella, pilot for the coast of British Columbia and late of the Hudson's Bay Co. Service. He drowned from a canoe, while on duty as a licensed pilot in Burrard Inlet, 1873. 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) |