Milbanke Sound is a sound on the coast of the Canadian province of British Columbia .
10-567: Milbanke Sound extends east from Queen Charlotte Sound , with Price Island on the west, Swindle Island on the north, and the Bardswell Group of islands on the south. Milbanke Sound is one of the open sea portions of the Inside Passage , with Seaforth Channel joining from the east and Finlayson Channel from the north. Mathieson Channel also connects to Milbanke Sound from the north, and leads to Fiordland Conservancy . On
20-463: A boat excursion up Goletas Channel Strange saw an opening ahead and named it Queen Charlotte Sound. The body of water he named was what is today known as Queen Charlotte Strait. For some time Queen Charlotte Strait was also called Queen Charlotte Sound, until 1920 when the BCGNIS and Hydrographic Service distinguished between Queen Charlotte Sound and Queen Charlotte Strait. George Vancouver , who used
30-630: A pidgin jargon composed of the Kaigani and Tshatshinni dialects of Haida and English. Chinook Jargon , commonly used elsewhere, was not widely known in Milbanke Sound at the time. The fort operated for about ten years, and then was abandoned; the company later opened a small store at the same location. To improve the safety of the developing travel and shipping lanes, a lighthouse was built in 1898 at Robb Point on Ivory Island. In recent times archaeological investigations have been carried out in
40-471: Is a channel and strait on the north side of Vancouver Island in British Columbia , Canada . It separates Vancouver Island from Hope Island and Nigei Island , located just east of Cape Sutil , the northernmost point of Vancouver Island. The waters of Goletas Channel are part of northern Queen Charlotte Strait . The Nahwitti River empties into the western end of Goletas Channel, near
50-470: The Milbanke Sound area. The sound is popular with sports fishing enthusiasts. Queen Charlotte Sound (Canada) Queen Charlotte Sound ( French : Bassin de la Reine-Charlotte ) is a sound of the Pacific Ocean in British Columbia , Canada, between Vancouver Island in the south and Haida Gwaii in the north. It merges with Hecate Strait in the north and Queen Charlotte Strait in
60-765: The coast of Vancouver Island from Cape Scott to Cape Sutil , then to Cape Caution on the mainland. An older definition placed the northern boundary as a line from the southernmost point of Aristazabal Island to Cape St James. Queen Charlotte Sound was named by James Strange on August 5, 1786, in honour of the British queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz . Strange was the leader of a fur trading expedition of two vessels, Captain Cook , under Captain Henry Lawrie, and Experiment , under Captain John Guise. During
70-592: The islands surrounding the sound is a group of five volcanos called the Milbanke Sound cones . The Heiltsuk peoples traditionally occupied the land around Milbanke Sound. In late June, 1788, the British fur trader Charles Duncan , captain of Princess Royal , entered Milbanke Sound, which was then uncharted waters. He spent a few days trading with the Heiltsuk . He named the sound after Vice Admiral Mark Milbanke . Explorer George Vancouver sailed through
80-610: The name in his maps and writings, wrote that the sound was named by Mr. S. Wedgeborough, in command of the Experiment under James Strange, but Vancouver was wrong—Strange was the one who gave the name. [REDACTED] Media related to Queen Charlotte Sound (Canada) at Wikimedia Commons This article about a location on the Central Coast of British Columbia , Canada is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Goletas Channel Goletas Channel
90-614: The sound a few years later. In 1805, a trading ship from Boston, the Atahualpa , was attacked by a group of Tlingit; the captain and some of the crew were killed. In 1833 the Hudson's Bay Company established Fort McLoughlin in the Milbanke Sound area. William Fraser Tolmie was stationed there in 1833-1834. Tolmie wrote about the fur trade in the area, saying that it was conducted with the Coast Tsimshians and Heiltsuks, using
100-498: The south. Queen Charlotte Sound is part of the Inside Passage shipping route. According to the BCGNIS , the northern boundary of Queen Charlotte Sound is defined as a line running from the southernmost point of Price Island to Cape St James on Kunghit Island , the southernmost point of Haida Gwaii. The western boundary is a line from Cape St James to Cape Scott at the north end of Vancouver Island. The southern boundary runs along
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