| Feature Type: | Locality - A named place or area, generally with a scattered population of 50 or less. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | N side of Hecate Channel, Esperanza Inlet, SW of Tahsis, Nootka Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°52'24"N, 126°42'49"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92E/15 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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"Ceepeecee (Post Office, Steamer Landing & settlement)" adopted in the 1930 BC Gazetteer. Confirmed 27 July 1946 on 92E/15. Form of name changed to Ceepeecee (Settlement) 3 March 1960 on C.3662. Further changed to Ceepeecee (Locality) 29 November 1984. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Ceepeecee Post Office was opened 15 May 1926, located on L386. Post Office relocated to the larger settlement of Esperanza, about 1 mile westward at Lot 391, 1 April 1955. Renamed Esperanza Post Office 16 February 1960, to conform to the name of the settlement. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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The name of the location is an phoenetic rendering of the initials C.P.C., referring to the Canadian Packing Corporation, a subsidiary of California Packing Corporation, which company started a plant here in 1927. There were a few inhabited buildings here, although the reduction plant had burned down (1958 advice from Hydrographic Service). "...ruins of a former cannery..." (BC Pilot Vol 1, 1965, p.532). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |