Gilford Island is an island in British Columbia, Canada, located between

Tribune Channel Tribune Channel is a channel or strait on the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada, separating Gilford Island on the west and north from the mainland. The channel bends around Gilford Island, with the mouth of Thompson Sound at the elbow of ...

and Knight Inlet. The island has an area of . Turnour Island is to the south across Tribune Channel, the entrance to Thompson Sound to the east. Port Elizabeth is a large bay or port on the south side of the island at , named by

Captain Pender Daniel Pender was a Royal Navy Staff Commander, later captain, who surveyed the Coast of British Columbia aboard , and from 1857 to 1870. Pender was recorded as the second master of the admiralty survey vessel, HMS ''Plumper'', in 1857 when h ...

about 1867 for Elizabeth Henrietta, wife of Lord Gilford and daughter or Sir

Arthur E. Kennedy Sir Arthur Edward Kennedy (; 5 April 1809 – 3 June 1883) was a British colonial administrator who served as governor of a number of British colonies, namely Sierra Leone, Western Australia, Vancouver Island, Hong Kong and Queensland. Early l ...

, Governor of Vancouver Island at the time was assigned to the Pacific Station, 1862–1864, under Lord Gilford's command. Gilford Point at marks the south side of the entrance to Port Elizabeth. Duck Cove at is at the head of the port. Maple Cove, formerly Maple Bay, is on the north side of the port at

Indian reserves and other settlements

All Indian reserves on Gilford Island are under the administration of the

Kwikwasut'inuxw Haxwa'mis First Nation The Kwikwasut'inuxw are one of the many subgroups of the Kwakwaka'wakw peoples of the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada. Their ancestral home is at Gwayasdums Gwayasdums is a village of the Kwakwaka'wakw peoples on the west side of Gilfor ...

. There is on the island an historic indigenous community of the Kwakwaka'wakw people called Gwayasdums or Gwa'yasdams, which was destroyed by the Nuxalk in 1856 though today has been reoccupied. Another former village, Metap, was at the head of Viner Sound on the island's northwest coast, though today there is only an Indian reserve, officially named "Meetup Indian Reserve No. 2". Another Indian reserve on Gilford Island, Dakiulis Indian Reserve No. 7, is at the tip of Islet Point on the northwest side of the island, 0.70 ha. at Kyimla Indian Reserve No. 11 is on the east side of the island at Trafford Point. It is 1.10 ha. in size and is located at . Another settlement on the island is Scott Cove, at the bay of the same name on the northwest side of the island.BC Names/GeoBC entry "Scott Cove (locality)"
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