Adopted 6 May 1947 on C.3773, as labeled on British Admiralty Chart 1923A, 1868 et seq.

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

"Named in 1867 by Captain Pender, after Peter Comrie, RN, surgeon, HM Sparrowhawk under Commander Porcher. On this station 1865-1870; surgeon 1865; staff commander 1868. Dr. Comrie was the medical man who examined at Hesquiat, in May 1869, the bodies of the shipwrecked crew of the John Bright, and for not attending at the court upon being subpoenaed when the trail of the Indains for murder took place in Victoria (having sailed in the Sparrowhawk on a cruise along the coast), he was committed by Mr. Justice Needham; upon his return the judge accepted his apology for his absence, it being caused by his attendance upon Governor Seymour, who died board the Sparrowhawk on that cruise."

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)