Hecate Strait
This famously blustery strait flows between Haida Gwaii and mainland British Columbia. It was named after HMS Hecate, a paddle-wheeled survey sloop that plied West Coast waters, including the strait, in the early 1860s; the Haida Nation refer to Hecate Strait as Siigaay.1
  • 1. Andrew Scott, The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Placenames (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 2009), 256.
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HMS Hecate, 1839-1865

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British Columbia

Haida Gwaii

The Colonial Despatches Team. Hecate Strait. The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871, Edition 2.0, ed. The Colonial Despatches Team. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria. https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/hecate_strait.html.

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