Adopted 18 December 1906 (Geographic Board file 0046).

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

Named Isla de Lasqueti after Juan Maria Lasqueti, a prominent Spanish naval officer. So-labelled on 1792 Spanish charts; island not compiled on Vancouver's chart; identified as "Sangster Island" on J.D. Pemberton's 1855 map of South Eastern Districts of Vancouver Island and on Arrowsmith's 1858 map of Vancouver Island & Adjacent Coast; labelled Lasqueti Island on 1859 edition of Arrowsmith map, and on subsequent Arrowsmith maps; labelled Lasqueti Island on all British Admiralty Charts.

Source: BC place name cards & correspondence, and/or research by BC Chief Geographer & Geographical Names Office staff.

Named in 1791 by the Spanish naval officer, José Maria Narvaez, in command of the exploring schooner Santa Saturnina (part of Eliza's expedition from Nootka). Galiano notes in his journal in reference to this expedition "...Eliza entered [Juan de Fuca Strait] 27 May 1791 and remained in it until 7 August....during this time he caused plans to be made of some of the harbours, and had part of the coast examined by Don Joseph Narvaez, being unable to do so himself on account of ill health".

Source: Walbran, John T; British Columbia Coast Names, 1592-1906: their origin and history; Ottawa, 1909 (republished for the Vancouver Public Library by J.J. Douglas Ltd, Vancouver, 1971)

Named in honour of Juan Maria Lasqueti, a naval officer [who may have] taken part in the Brazil expedition in 1777. When discovered by Narvaez about 12 July 1791, he named it "Texada".

Source: Wagner, Henry R; The Cartography of the Northwest Coast of America; University of California Press, Berkley, 1937