Kiokathli Inlet


Kiokathli Inlet (53˚41'00" 132˚59'00" SW side of Port Louis, W side of Graham I, QCI). A modification of the Haida name for Port Louis, with kathli meaning “open bay.” Some early maps show this name spelled Kyokathli or Kai Qa-ti. In his British Columbia Place Names, Capt John Walbran claims that Kiokathli Inlet was formerly named Port Ingraham, after the early US fur trader Joseph Ingraham, but Ingraham’s own journal, published in 1971, indicates that Port Ingraham was the feature now...

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