Adopted 1 October 1953 on Hydrographic Services Chart #3812. Named in association with Juskatla Inlet.

Source: BC place name cards & correspondence, and/or research by BC Chief Geographer & Geographical Names Office staff. file Q.2.45.

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.

Juskatla Narrows – along the west shore of Fraser Island, is the main entrance to Juskatla Inlet. Officially named by the Hydrographic Service in 1953, but known locally by that name for many years before.
The Haidas called this narrow neck “belly-of-the-rapids” and also “place-of-strong-tide-to-the-inside.” Tidal streams in the narrows attain speeds of 6 to 9 knots on the ebb, and more than this when the rivers and creeks are in flood.

Source: Dalzell, Kathleen E; "Queen Charlotte Islands - Book 2: of places and names"; Prince Rupert: Cove Press, 1973, page 405.