Haggard Cove
| Feature Type: | Cove (2) - Water area in a small indentation of the shoreline of a sea, lake or river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Other Names: | Cumaqnit Cove |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Just inside the entrance to Alberni Inlet, on the N side, Clayoquot Land District |
| Tags: | World War II |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 48°57'48"N, 125°01'20"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92C/14 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 28 September 1984 on 92 C/14. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named to remember W.A. (Alvin) Haggard, DCM; served in South Saskatchewan Regiment at Dieppe. Proposed by C. Haggard of Port Alberni and proposal supported by South Saskatchewan Regiment Association. **note: no fatal casualties by this name identified in Commonwealth War Graves Commission records for WWII. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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The Uchucklesaht name for Haggard Cove is Cumaqnit (pronounced ko-MUCK nit). (advice from Uchucklesaht Tribe, October 2008) Source: included with note |