Queen Charlotte (Post Office & Steamer Landing) adopted 10 December 1945 on C.3806. Confirmed 14 June 1946 on 103 SE. Form of name changed to Queen Charlotte (Post Office) 28 November 1980. At the same time, Queen Charlotte City (community) was adopted 28 November 1980 on 103 F/8. Queen Charlotte City (community) and Queen Charlotte (Post Office) at the same location; BOTH to be labelled on BC maps. Incorporated as a Village Municipality, to be known as Village of Queen Charlotte, per Order in Council 470, 28 June 2005, effective 7 December 2005. Name changed to Village of Daajing Giids 13 July 2022 as per Order in Council 422/2022.

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

See "Queen Charlotte Islands" for name origin information. Municipality encompasses 10+ km along the southern shore of Graham Island, from IR1 near Skidegate ferry terminal westward past Lina Narrows, extends about 3km inland, and includes Lina Island and the islands & islets in Bearskin Bay to approximately the mid-line of Maude Channel. See also the municipality's own website.

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

"Lies along the north shore of Bearskin Bay and covers most of Lots 15, 15A, 16 and 16A. In 1889 this entire 703-acre strip of choice waterfront property belonged to 3 men. James R. McKenzie and James Shields purchased the eastern portion, Lots 15 and 15A. Mr. R. Sturdy put a down payment on 16 and 16A. Purchase price: one dollar per acre. Mr. Sturdy, however, changed his mind. His options on Lots 16 and 16A were promply picked up by T.S.Gore and in 1891 Gore, McKenzie and Shields received their Crown Grants.
Jimmy Shields first came to the Charlottes in 1885 with W.A. Robertson to prospect for coal, making several return trips later to help Robertson prove up on the coal claims. The oilery at Skidegate (Landing) was the headquarters of the expected business growth of the Charlottes, it seemed logical to assume that any community springing up as a result would be in this vicinity, thus Shields chose the land immediately adjacent. T.S.Gore had another idea. He persuaded his partners to enter into a townsite company. An American syndicate had secured a 30-year lease on 90 square miles of virgin timber around Skidegate Inlet, but to hold the lease they had to put in a mill. Gore's company provided the site. The town would develop around it. The first survey for streets and lots was made on Gore's property. As the town grew, portions of Lots 15 and 15A were acquired and additional streets and lots laid out on them. Naming was something the townsite owners had little time for. Gore's property never advanced beyond numbers, 1st, 2nd, 3rd and so on for streets and avenues. With the opening of the eastern part they did provide a few extras in the names of trees. But the best they could do for the town itself was merely The Townsite. Then they hired a man to promote the sale of lots, who more than made up for their lack of imagination - Daniel R. "Windy" Young. He immediately relegated the pallid "Townsite" name to the wastebasket where it properly belonged. A new name was installed: Queen Charlotte City. What matter if there were only a few tents? Windy Young knew the value of publicity. He started a newspaper - the first of his many activities. He promoted everything and anything from oil to coal to fish - and the vigour of his sales pitch put life-blood into his first love - "the townsite." It spelled the end of the capital status enjoyed up to then by Skidegate. Windy Young's "city" took that distinction for her own as though it had been predestined from the time the first volcanic upheaval had thrust the islands into being. And kept it. It is not the largest settlement today....but it is the unofficial capital of the Charlottes."

Source: Dalzell, Kathleen E; Queen Charlotte Islands - Book 2: of places and names; Prince Rupert: Cove Press, 1973