New Clew North Coast Regional District, British Columbia

Locality - A named place or area, generally with a scattered population of 50 or less. N. side of Louise Island, Queen Charlotte Land District

Mapped Location

New Clew: The mapped location is an approximation and should not be used for navigation or wayfinding.

 

Information

General information on New Clew

  • Feature Type: Place

 

Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for New Clew

A brief list of names that this geographic feature has been named

Name Description
New Clew Official

 

Origin Notes and History of New Clew

References to New Clew that document the origin of its place name

Adopted 2 December 1954 on Ottawa file OBF 3986.

B.C. Geographical Names in Province of British Columbia
BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office  |  Province of British Columbia

Abandoned Indian Village of historic importance according to anthropologist Wilson Duff.

B.C. Geographical Names in Province of British Columbia
BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office  |  Province of British Columbia

Various spellings/forms: Clue, New Clew, Kloo, Kliew, Klue. Clew Indian Reserve and New Clew (locality) are on north side Louise Island. Djí-gua was near present-day Cumshewa, across inlet from New Clew. Old Clew would appear to be Tanu. "...Kloo (Tlanú)... would seem to be a very modern town. In recent times the people of this town moved to a place where the so-called "Kloo Oil Works" were built, not far from the old site of Djí-gua, but after living there a few years, passed on the Skidegate." (Stanton, J.R., The Haida; Jesup Expedition, vol 5, pt 1, 1905, pp.96-97)

B.C. Geographical Names in Province of British Columbia
Provincial Archives of BC "Place Names File" compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions  |  Province of British Columbia

Kloo = canoe (p.92B, Haida Skidegate dialect, item 151)

B.C. Geographical Names in Province of British Columbia
Tolmie, W.F. & Dawson, G.M; Comparative Vocabularies of the Indian Tribes of British Columbia; Geological & Natural History Survey of Canada, 1884  |  Province of British Columbia

 

North Coast Regional District

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Last updated: 2023-09-27