| Feature Type: | Arm - Long narrow extension of a water body. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | E side of Woods Islands, Ladysmith Harbour, Nanaimo Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°00'09"N, 123°48'29"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92G/4 |
| Related Maps: |
92B/13 92G/4 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted in the 14th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1915, as labelled on British Admiralty Chart 3523, 1905. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named after the Victoria residence of James Dunsmuir. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named by Commander John F Parry, HMS Egeria, on resurveying the harbour in 1904, after the residence of James Dunsmuir, Victoria, named by him after "Burleith Farms", Ayrshire, Scotland, near the native place of his father, the late Robert Dunsmuir, president of the Executive Council of British Columbia. Source: Walbran, John T; British Columbia Coast Names, 1592-1906: their origin and history; Ottawa, 1909 (republished for the Vancouver Public Library by J.J. Douglas Ltd, Vancouver, 1971) |