Juskatla Inlet adopted 7 March 1933 on C.G.S. 278A, "Prince George Sheet," as established on BC Provincial Map 3L, 1915, and in the 1930 Gazetteer of Canada; confirmed 3 July 1946 on Map 103SE. Spelling changed 7 January 2022 to Juus Ḵáahlii on 103F/9 as recommended by The Council of the Haida Nation and supported by North Coast Regional District, Archipelago Search and Rescue, Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue, and the Village of Port Clements.

Source: BC place name cards & correspondence, and/or research by BC Chief Geographer & Geographical Names Office staff.

According the QCI historian Kathleen Dalzell, Justkatla’s modification of a Haida term meaning “inlet on the inside of Djus Island” (Djus is today’s Fraser Island). Geologist George Dawson called the inlet Tsoo-Skatli in 1878. Many small logging outfits worked along its shores during WWI, cutting Sitka spruce for the imperial Munitions board. The logging camp of Juskatla was established in 1947 by Pacific Mills, a Crown Zellerbach subsidiary. It was had originally been located at the village of Queen Charlotte but was moved on a series of barges to its current location in about three weeks by Parker Bonney, a former district forester at Prince Rupert. The camp, which took only the choicest spruce, used for airplane construction, was operated by Aero Timber, a Crown corporation during WWII. After the war the Powell River Co bought Aero’s assets for scandalously low price and then merged with MacMillan Bloedel Ltd, which maintained the camp as its QCI HQ for many years. In the early 2000s, Juskatla was owned by Western Forest Products Inc. Juskatla Narrows, where ebb tides reach 9 knots ( 17km/hr), was known by the Haida as Belly-of-the-Rapids. Nearby Juskatla Mountains named after the inlet.

Source: Scott, Andrew; "The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names"; Harbour Publishing, Madeira Park, 2009, page 297.

Juus Ḵáahlii is the ancestral X̱aad Kíl name for this inlet (Advice from The Council of the Haida Nation, 2020).

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Labelled "Tsoo-skatli" on George Dawson's 1878 Map; another spelling of the name is "Tsuskatli" (source not cited).

Source: BC place name cards & correspondence, and/or research by BC Chief Geographer & Geographical Names Office staff.