Nimpkish Bank


Nimpkish Bank (50˚34'00" 126˚57'00" At the mouth of the Nimpkish R, Broughton Str, E of Port McNeill), Nimpkish River (50˚34'00" 126˚59'00" Flows NW into Broughton Str through Nimpkish Lk, NE Vancouver I). The ’Namgis or Nimpkish people, whose traditional territory coincides largely with the boundaries of the Nimpkish R watershed, are a branch of the Kwakwaka’wakw First Nation. Capt George Vancouver visited their principal village, Xwalkw, located at the mouth of the river, in 1792 and...

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