Quathiaski Cove


Quathiaski Cove (50˚03'00" 125˚13'00" SW side of Quadra I, Discovery Passage, just NE of Campbell R). This may be a Northern Coast Salish word meaning “island in the mouth,” referring to Grouse I, located at the entrance to the cove. Other translations are also recorded, including “place on N side of the point.” Pidcock Bros built a salmon cannery on the cove in 1904, and the village that grew up around it was the largest in the area until the mid-1920s, when Campbell R emerged as the...

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