"Maquinna Point (not Maquilla, Moquina nor Mocuina)" adopted in the 18th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1924, as long-labelled on British and Spanish Admiralty Charts, including Galiano and Valdez' 1792 chart, Vancouver's 1793 chart, and Kellett's 1847 chart; as identified in the 1909 BC Gazetteer, and as labelled on BC map 2C 1919, et seq.

Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office

Named "Punta de Macuina" by the Spaniards, in 1791, after the hereditary chief of the Mooachaht, a Nootka tribe. In their journals, Captain Cook spoke highly of Chief Maquinna, as did Vancouver and Quadra; spelled variously Maquilla, Mokwinna, Moquina, Mocuina, etc.

Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office

"Maquinna ruled the Nootka tribes... all [Indigenous people] residing at other points on the west coast of Vancouver Island are sub-bands of the Nootka. Friendly Cove is the ancestral home of Chief Maquinna and the Nootka; at the time of Cook's landing (1778), [Indigenous people] residing there, or thereabouts, numbered several thousand..."

Source: Nicholson, George; Vancouver Island's West Coast 1762 - 1962; Morriss Printing Co, Victoria, 1962

Maquinna was a hereditary name of a succession of Nootka chiefs. The Spaniards named this point after the most famous of the line, the Chief Maquinna who in 1788 sold a small patch of land on Nootka Island to Captain Meares. This gave rise to the dispute with the Spaniards who claimed ownership of all Nootka because of prior discovery; war was narrowly averted between England and Spain. Captain Vancouver met Maquinna upon his arrival at Friendly Cove in 1792. In 1803 the next Chief Maquinna led an attack on the American ship "Boston", massacuring all but two of the crew. The last Maquinna to maintain authority over the Nootka Indians died in 1901.

Source: Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V; British Columbia Place Names; Sono Nis Press, Victoria 1986 /or University of British Columbia Press 1997