Adopted 6 June 1952 on Hydrographic Services Chart #3747, "Browning Entrance." Named in association with Kitkatla (village) and Kitkatla Inlet.

Source: BC place name cards & correspondence, and/or research by BC Chief Geographer & Geographical Names Office staff, File H.1.44.

Kitkatla is the anglicized form of a Tsimshian term that can be translated as “people of the salt” or “those who live by the sea.” The Gitxaala (or Giktxaala) First Nation, who are believed, about 1787, to have been the first members of the Tsimshian cultural group to make contact with European visitors, were often referred to in the fur-trading era as the Sebassa, after the hereditary name of the a prominent chief. Kitkatla village, also known as Lack Klan, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited communities on the BC coast; its population in the early 2000s was about 450, and commercial fishing was the primary livelihood. Nearby Kitkatla Creek is named for this First Nation as well.

Source: Scott, Andrew; "The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names"; Harbour Publishing, Madeira Park, 2009, Pages 312-313.