Skidegate North Coast Regional District, British Columbia

Community - An unincorporated populated place, generally with a population of 50 or more, and having a recognized central area that might contain a post office, store and/or community hall, etc, intended for the use of the general public in the region. SE coast of Graham Island, E of Village of Queen Charlotte, Queen Charlotte Land District

Mapped Location

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

 

Information

General information on Skidegate

  • Feature Type: Place

 

Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for Skidegate

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

Name Description
Skidegate Official

 

Origin Notes and History of Skidegate

References to Skidegate that document the origin of its place name

Skidegate Mission (Village) adopted 14 June 1946 on 103SE. From of name changed to Skidegate Mission (Settlement) in the 1953 Gazetteer. Form of name changed to Skidegate Mission (Community) 15 September 1983 on 103G/5. Name changed to Skidegate (Community) 31 March 1992 by BC, and submitted to CPCGN for dual approval. Department of Indian and Northern Affairs approved the name change 18 November 1998.

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Jim Kirk, representing the United Church of Canada, requested that "Mission" be removed from the official name to reflect the preferred local usage and to reflect the church's role as a participating member of the community rather than missionary to the residents. A letter of confirmation from the Skidegate Band Council dated 30 March 1992 requested that all references to the community and reserve be changed, to remove the word "Mission" (file S.3.59).

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Skidegate (community) is about 3km east of Skidegate Landing.

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Skidegate is a Haida word meaning "red paint stone".

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Related Catalog Titles

A Bibliography for Skidegate, North Coast Regional District, British Columbia

Skidegate house models from Haida Gwaii to the Chicago World's Fair and beyond = Hlg̲aagilda naa gii niijing.a k'ad.dala k̲wan : X̲aayda Gwaay.yaay sdaa uu Chicago Tllgaay K̲'aaysguux̲an gud ad is by Robin Kathleen Wright , Jisgang Nika Collison

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"Early in 1892, more than seventeen Haida artists were commissioned to carve a model of their village of Skidegate on Haida Gwaii. The model, displayed at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, is the only North American example of an aboriginal village systematically documented by its own nineteenth-century residents. It originally featured twenty-nine house and forty-three totem pole models; after the exposition, the model was dispersed and many pieces were lost over time. However, ten house and twenty-two totem pole models remain in Chicago in the collection of the Field Museum of Natural History, and two additional model houses with seven totem poles have been located in other collections. In this highly collaborative research project, Wright combines interviews with members of the Skidegate community today with close study of the extant parts of the model along with a review of the documentation collected in 1892 to bring both the model and the village and community it documents into full view. The community engaged research and resulting book offers valuable insights into Northwest Coast art history and will be a significant cultural resource for the Haida Nation"-- Provided by publisher

xvii, 201 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 27 x 27 cm.

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History · 1st Edition · University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2024
Related Catalog Items: Skidegate · Skidegate Landing

 


 

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