| Feature Type: | Passage - Variation of Pass: Narrow stretch of water connecting two larger water bodies. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Between Farrant and Fin Islands, off SE end of Banks Island, Range 4 Coast Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 53°17'25"N, 129°21'59"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 103H/6 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 7 March 1933 on Geological Survey sheet 278A, Prince Rupert, as labelled on British Admiralty Chart 1923B, 1867 et seq. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"Named in 1866 by Captain Pender, RN. After the Rev. Edward Cridge, clerk in holy orders, the second clergyman of the Church of England to reside on Vancouver Island, where he arrived from London in the Marques of Bute, chartered by the Hudson's Bay Company, on 1 April 1855. The first clergyman of the Church of England to reside on the island was the Rev. Robert Staines, who arrived in 1849 and was drowned off Cape Flattery in 1853. From 1856 to 1874, Mr. Cridge under the authority of the Hudson's Bay Company, was in charge of the district church of Victoria, which, in 1864, was conveyed in trust for diocesan purposes to Bishop Hills, first Bishop of Columbia. In due course Christ Church, so-named by Mr. Cridge after his church in London, was made the cathedral and the Rev. E. Cridge appointed dean. In 1874, after some unhappy differences with Bishop Hills, the dean joined the Reformed Episcopal Church, in which, at Ottawa, he was consecrated bishop in July 1876, and has since resided in Victoria. Bishop Cridge was born in Devonshire in 1817, graduated from Peterhouse, Cambridge, 1848, and is one of the oldest pioneers of the city of Victoria, where he is esteemed and venerated by all classes of the inhabitants.... Also Cridge Island, named in 1862 by officers of HMS Hecate." [see also Cridge, Mount] 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) |
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"...HBC chaplain in Victoria 1856-74. After a magnificent row with Bishop Hills, he joined the Reformed Episcopal Church, taking most of the old HBC men in Victoria with him." Source: Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V; British Columbia Place Names; Sono Nis Press, Victoria 1986 /or University of British Columbia Press 1997 |