Triangulation station "Claque" occupied and named in 1949. The intended namesake was Herbert Naden Clague, BCLS, who laid out the subdivision scheme at Kitimat in 1910 in anticipation of the railway being built from Terrace; obtained his commission as a BC Land Surveyor in 1911; surveyed in the vicinity of Clayoquot and Nootka Sounds, 1913-15; died 1921.
Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office
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