Caffery Point
| Feature Type: | Point - Land area jutting into a water feature; also used for a convex change in direction of a shoreline. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | N. side of Becher Bay, Metchosin Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 48°20'03"N, 123°36'15"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92B/5 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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"Caffery Point (not Bluff Point)" adopted 6 November 1934 on Department of National Defence sheet 415C, Sooke (file S.2.33). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Labelled Bluff Point on plan 4T3, 1906 (title not cited); presumably a unique name was sought, to avoid duplication. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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After an old family of this district. Frank Caffery was the original owner of DL 128, Sooke; Crown Grant dated 26 January 1912. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |