Johnson Cove adopted 8 January 1929, as recommended by Hydrographic Service. Name changed to Eagle Harbour 3 March 1949 on C.3586, being the long-established and preferred local name.

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

Various other local names for embayments along this shoreline: Fisherman's Cove, Shelter Bay, Retreat Cove. H.D. Parizeau, Hydrographic Service, concerned that all the local names were duplicated elsewhere on the coast, recommended the name Johnson Cove, after his friend the late Captain E. Johnson, harbour pilot at Vancouver; Johnson been trained in Sweden and was master of tug boats for the Hastings Mill Company prior to his appointment as Pilot for Vancouver harbour in 1893. Died 1901(?).

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

"What is shown on your map as Johnson Cove is now accepted locally as Eagle Harbour although it was at one time known as Shelter Bay." (2 February 1949 letter from R.A. Harrison, municipal clerk, District of West Vancouver, to Chief Geographer, Department of Lands & Forests, Victoria.)

Source: Provincial Archives' Place Names File (the "Harvey File") compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions

Formerly called Fisherman's Cove because about 1888 some Newfoundland fishermen settled here with their families under provincial auspices.

Source: Provincial Archives' Place Names File (the "Harvey File") compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions