| 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: | Bluff Point |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | S entrance of Salmon Arm, Seymour Inlet, Range 2 Coast Land District |
| Tags: | Indigenous |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 51°02'17"N, 126°42'26"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92M/2 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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"Bluff Point" adopted in the 1930 BC Gazetteer. Name changed to "Taaltz Point" 6 January 1949 in Ottawa file OBF 2552. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named after a former First Nations village at this location. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named after a former Nak’waxda’xw settlement on Salmon Arm. The Nak’waxda’xw people of Seymour Inlet, members of the Kwakwaka’wakw First Nation, moved to Blunden Hbr in the mid-1800s to be closer to coastal shipping routes, then moved again, to Port Hardy, in the 1960s. Formerly known as Bluff Point but renamed by the hydrographic service in 1949. Taaltz Ck, which flows S into Salmon Arm, is also named after this First Nation village. Source: Scott, Andrew; "The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names"; Harbour Publishing, Madeira Park, 2009, page 581. |