Point Ellice adopted 1 May 1934 on National Defence sheet 415a, Victoria, as labelled on J.D. Pemberton's 1855 map of South-Eastern Districts of Vancouver Island, and on British Admiralty Chart 576, 1862 et seq.

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

Named by the officers of the Hudson's Bay Company and adopted by Captain Kellet on surveying the harbour in 1846; after the Rt. Hon. Edward Ellice..... Ellice had come to Canada in 1803, joined the North West Company in 1805 and rose to be all powerful in the councils of that company and of the Hudson's Bay Company, being, as a leading partner of the former concern, mainly instrumental in bringing about their amalgamation on 26 March 1821. Secretary to the Treasury and whip in Lord Grey's government, 1830-32; Secretary for War, 1832-34. Was a member of the Parliamentary Select Committee of 1857 on the Hudson's Bay Company, and a principal and very interesting witness. Appointed deputy governor of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1858 and served in that capacity until his death in 1863.

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)