The Wakeman River is a
river
A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of w ...
in the western
Pacific Ranges
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on the
Central Coast region of
British Columbia
British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada, situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. It has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that include rocky coastlines, sandy beaches, ...
,
Canada
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, flowing south into
Wakeman Sound Wakeman Sound is a sound on the South Coast of British Columbia, Canada, located in the area north of the Broughton Archipelago, which lies on the north side of Queen Charlotte Strait, on the northeast side of Broughton Island. It is a sidewater o ...
, which is a sidewater of
Kingcome Inlet Kingcome Inlet is one of the lesser principal fjords of the British Columbia Coast, north and east of Broughton Island. It is sixth in sequence of the major saltwater fjords north from the 49th parallel near Vancouver and similar in width, on av ...
.
Alalco Indian Reserve No. 8 is at the mouth of the river, on its west shore. To its south, on the shore of Wakeman Sound, is
Dug-da-myse Indian Reserve No. 12, and to the south of that is another
Indian reserve
In Canada, an Indian reserve (french: réserve indienne) is specified by the '' Indian Act'' as a "tract of land, the legal title to which is vested in Her Majesty,
that has been set apart by Her Majesty for the use and benefit of a band."
In ...
,
Kyidagwis Indian Reserve No. 2.
Name origin
Like Wakeman Sound, the river was named by
Captain Pender for
William Plowden Wakeman, a clear at the
Esquimalt Royal Navy Dockyard
Esquimalt Royal Naval Dockyard was a major British Royal Navy yard on Canada's Pacific coast from 1842 to 1905, subsequently operated by the Canadian government as HMC Dockyard Esquimalt, now part of CFB Esquimalt, to the present day.
The nav ...
from 1866 to 1872. Wakeman had arrived from England on the
SS ''Tynemouth'' on September 17, 1862, and died in the naval hospital at Esquimalt in 1872.
[''British Columbia Coast Names, 1592-1906: Their Origin and History'', Capt. John T. Walbran, published for the Geographic Board of Canada, Ottawa, 1909 (republished for the Vancouver Public Library by J.J. Douglas Ltd, Vancouver, 1971, quoted in th]
BC Names/GeoBC entry for Wakeman Sound
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See also
* Wakeman (disambiguation)
References
Rivers of the Pacific Ranges
Rivers of the Central Coast of British Columbia
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