Halkett Island
Halkett Island is located in the north end of
Victoria Harbour.
1 Henry Kellett, captain of the HMS Herald, named the island in 1846 after the Halkett family, who
had a number of members prominant in the Royal Navy throughout the 18th, 19th, and
20th centuries.
2 Several other British Columbia features are named after various members of the Halkett
family.
3
Halkett Island, which at one point was called Deadman’s Island, was once a First Nation
burial ground.4 The July 1, 1867 edition of the British Colonist states that a fire damaged much of Halkett Island, including First Nations remains.
Police later arrested two young men who had lost control of their small fire.5
- 1. Halkett Island, BC Geographical Names Information System.
- 2. Andrew Scott, The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Placenames (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 2009), 244.
- 3. Ibid.
- 4. Ibid.
- 5. Halkett Island, BC Geographical Names Information System.
Mentions of this place in the documents