Elworthy Island
| Feature Type: | Island - Land area surrounded by water or marsh. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | In Waddington Channel, between East and West Redonda Islands, NE of Campbell River (city), New Westminster Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°11'51"N, 124°47'06"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92K/2 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Elworthy Island adopted 11 November 1992 on 92K/2. 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 Canadian Merchant Navy Seaman-Gunner Douglas Richard Elworthy, the only Canadian to die when the troop-transport "Empress of Asia" was bombed by the Japanese off Singapore, 5 February 1942. Elworthy was born July 1918 at Cardiff, Wales; came to Vancouver at the age of 4 and enlisted at Vancouver; he is buried in Kranji War Cemetery, Singapore, grave 35, B, 12. (additional biographical information, and Empress of Asia press clippings, on file P.1.76.) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |