Alan Reach
| Feature Type: | Reach - Relatively straight section of a river, lake, or inlet. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Gardner Canal, between Walkem Point and Kiltuish Inlet, Range 4 Coast Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 53°27'58"N, 128°37'20"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 103H/7 |
| Related Maps: |
103H/10 103H/7 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 7 March 1933 on 103 SE, as listed in the 1930 BC Gazetteer; confirmed on numerous subsequent maps and charts Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named in 1907 by Captain Learmouth, HMS Egeria, after Rear Admiral Alan Gardner..... (also Gardner Canal). 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) |