| Feature Type: | Passage - Variation of Pass: Narrow stretch of water connecting two larger water bodies. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Extends NW from Caamaño Sound through the Estevan Group of islands, SE of Banks Island, Range 4 Coast Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 53°03'32"N, 129°39'03"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 103H/4 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Langley Passage adopted 6 May 1924 on C.324, as recommended by Hydrographic Service; not Shoal Inlet as labelled on BC Lands' map 3P, 1924, nor Ethelda Passage as labelled on map 14C (date not cited). Confirmed 1 December 1949 on c.3724, 2 March 1950 on c.3741, 6 April 1950 on c.3742 and 2 October 1952 on 103H. Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |
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Ethelda was a surveyor taking part in hydrograhic surveys of this passage. Re-named by H.D. Parizeau, Hydrographic Service, after Mr. William Henry Langley; an old timer taking part in the Reunion of 1924; Langley, a veteran of the Great War, was born in Victoria 13 February 1868, son of the late A.J. Langley, member of the Executive under Sir James Douglas. Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |