Howe Sound

Howe Sound is northwest of Burrard Inlet, which lies before Vancouver. It is marked at its eastern side by Point Atkinson's lighthouse, at its northernmost reach the city of Squamish, and to the western entrance, the town of Gibsons. It was named in 1794, though Walbran notes that is was named in 1792,1 by Captain Vancouver after Admiral Richard Howe (1726-99), a Royal Navy war hero.2

1. John T. Walbran, British Columbia Coast Names (Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1971), 253.
2. Andrew Scott, The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 2009), 273.

Mentions of this place in the documents

Monthly Sanitary Report for January 1860 Royal Engineers British Columbia 11pp and Annual report for the year ending 31st Dec.
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Douglas, Chief Factor Governor Vice-Admiral Sir James to Stanley, Lord Edward Henry 19 June 1858, CO 305:9, no. 7832, 116.
Cooper, James to Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer 24 July 1858, CO 6:27, no. No no., 266.
Berens, Henry Hulse to Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer 12 August 1858, CO 6:26, no. 8056, 463.
Douglas, Chief Factor Governor Vice-Admiral Sir James to Stanley, Lord Edward Henry 19 August 1858, CO 60:1, no. 10342, 86.
Douglas, Chief Factor Governor Vice-Admiral Sir James to Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer 9 November 1858, CO 60:1, no. 549, 400.
Douglas, Chief Factor Governor Vice-Admiral Sir James to Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer 27 December 1858, CO 60:1, no. 2135, 534.
Douglas, Chief Factor Governor Vice-Admiral Sir James to Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer 25 March 1859, CO 60:4, no. 4809, 238.

People in this document

Vancouver, George

Places in this document

Burrard Inlet

Vancouver, British Columbia

Colonial Despatches

The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871

Howe Sound