| Feature Type: | Locality - A named place or area, generally with a scattered population of 50 or less. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | W side of Skeena River between Kitwanga and Cedarvale, NE of Terrace, Cassiar Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 55°03'59"N, 128°14'05"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 103P/1 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Woodcock (station) adopted 6 August 1953 on 103P, as labelled on BC map 1H, 1917, and as identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer. Form of name changed to Woodcock (locality) 29 November 1984 (Ottawa file 203-2). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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By 1930 a school was located at Woodcock, according to notation in the 1930 BC Gazetteer; aircraft landing strip constructed here during WW II. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Grand Truck Pacific Railway [later CNR] located a station here [date not cited but possibly March 1912 when the line opened], named after one Mr. Woodcock who, in 1871 had built an inn at the mouth of the Skeena River, the place called variously Skeenamouth or Woodcock's Landing, and before long the location of Inverness Cannery. Woodcock's Landing was the start of upriver transport, taking advantage of the Omineca gold excitement. The route to the new goldfields was upriver to Hazelton, thence overland to Babine Lake, Takla Lake and the Omineca River. In addition to building & operating the inn, Mr. Woodcock was employed by HBC's Robert Cunningham to cut the overland trail from Hazelton to Babine. No further mention of Mr. Woodcock in local histories or in mining reports. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |