Curtis Point
| Feature Type: | Point - Land area jutting into a water feature; also used for a convex change in direction of a shoreline. |
| Status: | Not official |
| Other Names: | Curteis PointOfficial |
| Relative Location: | N entrance point of Tsehum Harbour, just N of Sidney, North Saanich Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 48°40'28"N, 123°23'48"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92B/11 |
|
|
Origin Notes and History:
|
Curtis Point named in 1910, by the Provincial Government; spelling changed to Curteis Point 4 April 1927 on C.347. However, the original BC naming decision was apparently never conveyed to the Geographic Board of Canada, as neither spelling appears in Board decisions, annual reports or gazetteers until 1927. "Curteis Point (not Curtis Point)" identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |