Lasqueti Island Feature

Island - Land area surrounded by water or marsh. W of S end of Texada Island, Nanaimo Land District

Mapped Location

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

 

Information

General information on Lasqueti Island

  • Feature Type: Feature

 

Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for Lasqueti Island

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

Name Description
Lasqueti Island Official

 

Origin Notes and History of Lasqueti Island

References to Lasqueti Island that document the origin of its place name

Adopted 18 December 1906 (Geographic Board file 0046).

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

Named Isla de Lasqueti after Juan Maria Lasqueti, a prominent Spanish naval officer. So-labelled on 1792 Spanish charts; island not compiled on Vancouver's chart; identified as "Sangster Island" on J.D. Pemberton's 1855 map of South Eastern Districts of Vancouver Island and on Arrowsmith's 1858 map of Vancouver Island & Adjacent Coast; labelled Lasqueti Island on 1859 edition of Arrowsmith map, and on subsequent Arrowsmith maps; labelled Lasqueti Island on all British Admiralty Charts.

B.C. Geographical Names in Province of British Columbia
BC place name cards & correspondence, and/or research by BC Chief Geographer & Geographical Names Office staff.  |  Province of British Columbia

Named in 1791 by the Spanish naval officer, José Maria Narvaez, in command of the exploring schooner Santa Saturnina (part of Eliza's expedition from Nootka). Galiano notes in his journal in reference to this expedition "...Eliza entered [Juan de Fuca Strait] 27 May 1791 and remained in it until 7 August....during this time he caused plans to be made of some of the harbours, and had part of the coast examined by Don Joseph Narvaez, being unable to do so himself on account of ill health".

B.C. Geographical Names in Province of British Columbia
Walbran, John T; British Columbia Coast Names, 1592-1906: their origin and history; Ottawa, 1909 (republished for the Vancouver Public Library by J.J. Douglas Ltd, Vancouver, 1971)  |  Province of British Columbia

Named in honour of Juan Maria Lasqueti, a naval officer [who may have] taken part in the Brazil expedition in 1777. When discovered by Narvaez about 12 July 1791, he named it "Texada".

B.C. Geographical Names in Province of British Columbia
Wagner, Henry R; The Cartography of the Northwest Coast of America; University of California Press, Berkley, 1937  |  Province of British Columbia

 

Last updated: 2026-10-14