Hkusam Bay

Hkusam Bay (50˚23'00" 125˚55'00" S side of Johnstone Str, NW of Campbell R). According to anthropologist Wilson Duff, Hkusam is a Coast Salish name in an area now occupied by the Kwakwaka’wakw. Randy Bouchard, an ethnographer and linguist, has translated Hkusam (or X’wésam) as “having fat or oil.” The word refers, he suggests, to the Salmon R, which enters the ocean near Hkusam Bay, and to the former village at its mouth, once the most northerly community of the Comox (Coast Salish)...

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