Skidegate Landing North Coast Regional District, British Columbia

Locality - A named place or area, generally with a scattered population of 50 or less. N side of Skidegate Inlet, at E end of Village of Queen Charlotte (municipality) on Graham Island, Queen Charlotte Land District

Mapped Location

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

 

Information

General information on Skidegate Landing

  • Feature Type: Place

 

Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for Skidegate Landing

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

Name Description
Skidegate Landing Official

 

Origin Notes and History of Skidegate Landing

References to Skidegate Landing that document the origin of its place name

Skidegate (Village) adopted 14 June 1946 on 103SE. Identified as Skidegate (Post Office & Steamer Landing) in the 1953 BC Gazetteer. Identified as Skidegate (Settlement) in the 1973 Supplement to the 1963 BC Gazetteer. Form of name changed to Skidegate (locality) 15 February 1983 on 103F/1. Name changed to Skidegate Landing (Locality) 31 March 1992 on 103F/1, being the well-established local name for the locality immediately surrounding the ferry dock. Skidegate Landing amalgamated within the incorporated municipality Village of Queen Charlotte, effective 7 December 2005.

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Skidegate Landing is about 3km west of the much larger community known as Skidegate.

B.C. Geographical Names in Province of British Columbia
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Related Catalog Titles

A Bibliography for Skidegate Landing, 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
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