| Feature Type: | Passage - Variation of Pass: Narrow stretch of water connecting two larger water bodies. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Connects Duffin Passage and Heynen Channel, just N off Tofino, Clayoquot Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°09'44"N, 125°54'33"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92F/4 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Deadman Passage adopted 3 April 1934 on C.348, as recommended October 1933 by Hydrographic Service; not "Deadman Channel" as identified in the 10th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 30 June 1911. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Origin/anecdote not recorded. First so-named on an unspecified early edition of British Admiralty Chart #1835 [but NOT labelled on the 1st edition of the chart, 1898]. "Deadman Islets...also the navigable channel between the islets and the spit extending north from Felice (Round) island, Clayoquot Sound...." identified in the 10th Report, GBC. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |