Sonora Island
Sonora Island is located off the mid-east coast of Vancouver Island. Fierce tidal channels surround the island, which was considered, until the 1870s, Valdes Island, along with Quadra and Maurelle islands—these three islands did not receive their individual names until 1903.1
The 174 square km Sonora Island was named after the Sonora, an 11 m Spanish vessel that sailed west coast waters in the 1770s.2
  • 1. Andrew Scott, The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Placenames (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 2009), 556.
  • 2. Ibid.
Mentions of this place in the documents
Vessels in this document

SS Sonora, 1853-1868

Places in this document

Maurelle Island

Quadra Island

Vancouver Island

The Colonial Despatches Team. Sonora Island. 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/sonora_island.html.

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