| Feature Type: | Abandoned Locality - A previously populated place with no current population. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | W shore of Rivers Inlet, N of Dawsons Landing, Range 2 Coast Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 51°38'08"N, 127°33'20"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92M/12 |
| Related Maps: |
92M 92M/12 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Brunswick (Settlement) adopted 3 June 1947 on C.3778 as a well-established name. Resubmitted to Geographic Board 10 February 1967 with the recommendation that it be changed to Brunswick (Abandoned Locality); assumed passed 28 March 1967 on 92M (file R.1.54). Labelled "Brunswick (abandoned)" on BC map 92M, 1968 et seq. Confirmed as Brunswick (Abandoned Locality) 11 March 1999. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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This is former site of the Brunswick Cannery, shut down by the end of World War II. The United Church of Canada maintained a summer hospital here, last in operation in 1950 (1957 advice from Fisheries and Hospital Insurance Board, respectively). This is a meeting place for fishermen, and some store their nets here (1961 advice from Hydrographic Service). "Only a few ruined piles remain at this former cannery site..." (BC Pilot, Vol 2, 1970). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |