Poise Island

Poise Island (49˚30'00" 123˚45'00" In Porpoise Bay, S end of Sechelt Inlet, NW of Vancouver). The hydrographic service chose this name, a contraction of the word “porpoise,” in 1945. The feature was known locally in the 1920s as Cook’s I, after Thomas John Cook, early Sechelt settler and the area’s first justice of the peace, who owned it in 1912. Sechelt historian Helen Dawe, who was Cook’s granddaughter, considered the new name most regrettable and referred to Poise as a...

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