| Feature Type: | Cove (2) - Water area in a small indentation of the shoreline of a sea, lake or river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | W side Nasparti Inlet at base of Brooks Peninsula, NW side of Vancouver Island, Rupert Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°08'15"N, 127°41'30"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92L/4 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 30 September 1982 on 92L/4. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Commemorates Captain Robert Gray's ship "Columbia", which anchored here June 1791 and July 1792. Appears as "Columbia's Cove" on Robert Haswell's sketch of Chickleset or Bullfinch's Sound (Nasparti Inlet), and referred to by name 5 times in John Boit's Log of the Union. ("16 May 1795: ...at 3pm hauled into Bulfinches sound and at 6pm came to in Columbia's Cove..." etc). Also called Columbia Cove on Public Works Canada mooring buoy's report, 1979. Apparently called "Peddlers Cove" by some residents of Kyuquot. (file A.1.35) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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See also Fort Defiance, also Beautiful British Columbia magazine, fall 1967 (file T.1.43), for additional information about "Columbia" on this coast. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |