Wingate Point
| 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 W entrance to Meyers Passage, Range 3, Coast Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 52°35'34"N, 128°45'18"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 103A/10 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 2 February 1926 in 19th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 1928. (Federal file OBF 0982) Source: BC place name cards & correspondence, and/or research by BC Chief Geographer & Geographical Names Office staff. |
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Named after Lieutenant Walter Fenton Wingate (1887-?), Royal Naval Canadian Volunteer Reserve. Born in Sandown England on June 17th 1887. Enlisted in the Canadian Navy in 1914 with the occupation of surveyor, served aboard the HMC Rainbow 1915-1917. Later Master of the CGMM Canadian Winner in the 1920s. Returned to England by 1929, and lived in Warnham, West Sussex. Source: BC place name cards & correspondence, and/or research by BC Chief Geographer & Geographical Names Office staff. |