Adopted 10 August 1944 on C.3719 as submitted by Hydrographic Service.

Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office

Victoria's Emily Carr (1871-1945) is BC's best-known artist. She studied at San Fransico, London and Paris and became fascinated with First Nations subjects, travelling extensively on the BC coast to paint at aboriginal villages. Carr taught art in Victoria and Vancouver but was unsuccessful in establishing herself professionally and stopped painting in 1913. For the next 15 years she kept a Victoria boarding house, but when some of her works were included in a 1927 National Gallery of Canada exhibition, she travelled to Ottawa and met members of the Group of Seven. Lawren Harris, particularly, encouraged her to resume painting, which she did, focusing on BC's overpowering coastal forests as subject matter and developing a national reputation in the 1930s. Carr was also a fine writer; a non-fiction book, Klee Wyck (her Nuu-chah-nulth nickname, which means "laughing one"), was a Government General's Literacy Award in 1941. The name Theodora Inlet, after Unity Theodora Jefferys Baile, a junior member of the west coast hydrographic staff in 1943, was originally proposed for this geographic feature but was rejected as injudicious.

Source: Scott, Andrew; "The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names"; Harbour Publishing, Madeira Park, 2009, pp. 183.