Wakeman River

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The Wakeman River is a river in the western Pacific Ranges on the Central Coast region of British Columbia, Canada, flowing south into Wakeman Sound, which is a sidewater of Kingcome Inlet. [1]

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Alalco Indian Reserve No. 8 is at the mouth of the river, on its west shore. [2] To its south, on the shore of Wakeman Sound, is Dug-da-myse Indian Reserve No. 12, [3] and to the south of that is another Indian reserve, Kyidagwis Indian Reserve No. 2. [4]

In Canada, an Indian reserve is specified by the Indian Act as a "tract of land, the legal title to which is vested in Her Majesty, that has been set apart by Her Majesty for the use and benefit of a band."

Name origin

Like Wakeman Sound, the river was named by Captain Pender for William Plowden Wakeman, a clear at the Esquimalt Royal Navy Dockyard from 1866 to 1872. Wakeman had arrived from England on the SS Tynemouth on September 17, 1862, and died in the naval hospital at Esquimalt in 1872. [5]

Daniel Pender was a Royal Navy Staff Commander, later Captain, who surveyed the Coast of British Columbia aboard HMS Plumper, HMS Hecate and the Beaver from 1857 to 1870.

Esquimalt Royal Navy Dockyard

Esquimalt Royal Naval Dockyard was a major British Royal Navy yard on Canada's Pacific coast from 1842 to 1905, subsequently operated by the Canadian government to the present day.

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References

  1. ↑ BC Names/GeoBC entry "Wakeman River"
  2. ↑ BC Names/GeoBC entry "Alalco 8 (Indian reserve)
  3. ↑ BC Names/GeoBC entry "Dug-da-myse 12 (Indian reserve)"
  4. ↑ BC Names/GeoBC entry "Kyidagwis 2 (Indian reserve)
  5. ↑ British Columbia Coast Names, 1592-1906: Their Origin and History, Capt. John T. Walbran, published for the Geographic Board of Canada, Ottawa, 1909 (republished for the Vancouver Public Library by J.J. Douglas Ltd, Vancouver, 1971, quoted in the BC Names/GeoBC entry for Wakeman Sound

Coordinates: 51°02′16″N126°31′05″W / 51.03778°N 126.51806°W / 51.03778; -126.51806 (Wakeman River)

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