Cole Island is a small island located just offshore in
Esquimalt Harbour. According to
BCGNIS, Cole Island was named by Lieutenant Commander Wood of the HMS
Pandora after Commander Edmund Picoti Cole, master of the HMS
Fisgard.
1
According to
this despatch, and the attached documents, Moody, with
Douglas’s permission, chose Cole Island as the site for the Naval base's munitions store,
or magazine, at
Esquimalt Harbour, and according to Scott, the island is still referred to as Magazine Island.
2