Elsje Point
| Feature Type: | Point - Land area jutting into a water feature; also used for a convex change in direction of a shoreline. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | S side of English Bay at entrance to False Creek, Burrard Inlet, New Westminster Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°16'44"N, 123°08'50"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92G/6 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Elsje Point adopted 22 November 1984 on 92G/6, as submitted by Vancouver Maritime Museum. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Recommended by Board of Trustees, Maritime Museum, after Mrs. Elsje Armstrong (1918-1981), active in civic affairs and a member of the Board of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association. This feature is actually a rock and fill breakwater in front of the Vancouver Maritime Museum. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |