| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows SW. into Nahwitti River, SW. of Shushartie, Rupert Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°47'41"N, 127°55'18"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92L/13 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Godkin Creek adopted 6 May 1947 on 92L/13 as an established name. Source: BC place name cards & correspondence, and/or research by BC Chief Geographer & Geographical Names Office staff. |
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Reported to be named by a surveyor in 1936 after a Shusartie resident; however, no further details were submitted. 'Granite Creek' was identified as another name. Source: BC place name cards & correspondence, and/or research by BC Chief Geographer & Geographical Names Office staff. |
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Norman Godkin and his wife, Alice, were early pioneers in the Port Hardy area of northern Vancouver Island. Their daughter Eileen Excene Godkin (1903-83) married Jepther James Skinner (1868-1934) at Shushartie Bay Trading Post. Eileen sold out about 1940 after the drowning death of her husband, moved to Vancouver and married Captain Ed Godfrey, skipper of the mission boat Columbia for many years. Nearby Norman Island is named for Norman Godkin; Godkin Creek and Godkin Lake are also named for his family. Godkin Point was formally known as Gallows Point. Source: Scott, Andrew; "The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names"; Harbour Publishing, Madeira Park, 2009, pp. 224. |