| Language of origin | Haida language |
| Feature Type: | Point - Land area jutting into a water feature; also used for a convex change in direction of a shoreline. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | S. side of Carpenter Bay, Queen Charlotte Land District |
| Tags: | Indigenous |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 52°13'32"N, 131°05'52"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 103B/3 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 13 August 1962 on Hydrographic Services Chart #3809, "Carpenter Bay to Burnaby Island." Source: BC place name cards & correspondence, and/or research by BC Chief Geographer & Geographical Names Office staff, file M.1.45. |
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Kiju, chosen by the hydrographic services in 1962, is a modification of the name of the former Haida village of Kaidju, once located 6 km to the east Kaidju, or “Songs of Victory Village,” was the favourite settlement of Chief Koya, the notorious renegade (see Kendrick Inlet and Koya Bay). When naturalist and ethnologist Charles Newcombe visited the site in 1903, he reported that there were still some old lodges and pole fragments remaining. Source: Scott, Andrew; "The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names"; Harbour Publishing, Madeira Park, 2009, page 307. |