Coste Island


Coste Island (53˚50'00" 128˚45'00" Kitimat Arm, entrance to Kildala Arm, S of Kitimat), Coste Point (53˚52'00" 128˚44'00" N end of Coste I), Coste Rocks (53˚48'00" 128˚47'00" SW of Coste I, Douglas Channel). Louis Coste was chief engineer and, later, deputy minister of the Canadian Dept of Public Works in the 1890s and early 1900s. In 1905 he was appointed a member of the International Waterways Commission. Coste came to BC in 1898 and examined the heads of several inlets on BC’s N...

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