| Feature Type: | Port (1) - Inlet, or part of an inlet, providing shelter to vessels; a bay. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Between Squall Island and SW end of McCauley Island, Principe Channel, S of Prince Rupert, Range 4 Coast Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 53°33'59"N, 130°08'59"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 103G/9 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Port Canaveral adopted 3 March 1949 on C.3844, as labelled on British Admiralty Chart 2189, 1872 et seq. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named Puerto del Canaveral by Lieutenant Commander Jacinto Caamaño, of the Spanish corvette Aranzazu, while examining this neighbourhood in 1792. Captain Vancouver notes this harbour as Port Canaveral when passing it with the Discovery and Chatham in July 1793, and so-labelled on his "Chart...of the North West Coast of America". Source: Walbran, John T; British Columbia Coast Names, 1592-1906: their origin and history; Ottawa, 1909 (republished for the Vancouver Public Library by J.J. Douglas Ltd, Vancouver, 1971) |
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Cañaveral is Spanish for canefield or reed-field. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |