| Feature Type: | Islets - Small island. Plural of Islet. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | In front of Rumble Beach (community), E side of Neroutsos Inlet, Quatsino Sound, Rupert Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°25'02"N, 127°29'17"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92L/6 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Frigon Islets adopted 5 April 1927 on C.317, as recommended by Hydrographic Service; not "Dog Islets" as identified on early charts. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Name change suggested by H.D. Parizeau, Hydrographic Service, to avoid duplication. Renamed after Edward Frigon, who obtained Lot 103 by Crown Grant in June 1912. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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After Edward (Ned) Frigon, a French Canadian from Quebec, who established himself as a fur trader at Koprino Harbour long before the arrival of Quatsino's first settlers. (Middleton, Lynn, "Place Names of the Pacific Northwest Coast", Seattle, 1969, p 85.) Source: included with note |
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Born 1825 in Quebec?; arrived California 1949, possibly overland by foot; arrived Cariboo c1858 by way of Victoria (dates unknown); mined at Germanson Creek in the Cariboo 1874; (fur) trader at Hope Island off northern Vancouver Island 1882; saloon keeper at Drake Island, Quatsino 1899-1905; miner in Quatsino area 1906; saloon keeper again, at Drake Island, 1910; died 16 June 1917 at Port Alice (chronology from Wendy Scott, received June 1995, file A.1.35) Source: included with note |