The Esowista Peninsula is a

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in the

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region of the west coast of

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, Canada. The name was adopted in 1934 in reference to Esowista Indian Reserve No. 3. The name originally applied to the neck of land between Templar Channel and Browning Passage, centred at to the whole neck of land from Grice Bay,

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and

Tofino Tofino ( ) is a town of approximately 2,516 residents on the west coast of Vancouver Island in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The District of Tofino is located at the western terminus of Highway 4 on the tip of the Esowista Penins ...

. It was originally charted as Low Peninsula by the

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in 1860. Much of the peninsula is within the

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Meaning of name

"Esowista" is a transliteration of the original

Nuu-chah-nulth language Nuu-chah-nulth (), Nootka (), is a Wakashan language in the Pacific Northwest of North America on the west coast of Vancouver Island, from Barkley Sound to Quatsino Sound in British Columbia by the Nuu-chah-nulth peoples. Nuu-chah-nulth is a ...

word, ''hisaawista'' – "Captured by clubbing the people who lived there to death".Source: ''Ha-shilth-sa'' newspaper, 2003. All translations were compiled with consultation from Nuuchahnulth elders. Ha-shilth-sa (meaning 'interesting news') is the official newspaper for the Nuu-chah-nulth nation.

References

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