The
Wakeman River is a
river in the western
Pacific Ranges on the Central Coast region of
British Columbia,
Canada, flowing south into
Wakeman Sound, which is a sidewater of
Kingcome Inlet.
[ BC Names/GeoBC entry "Wakeman River"]
Alalco Indian Reserve No. 8 is at the mouth of the river, on its west shore.[ BC Names/GeoBC entry "Alalco 8 (Indian reserve)] To its south, on the shore of Wakeman Sound, is Dug-da-myse Indian Reserve No. 12,[ BC Names/GeoBC entry "Dug-da-myse 12 (Indian reserve)"] and to the south of that is another Indian reserve, Kyidagwis Indian Reserve No. 2.[ BC Names/GeoBC entry "Kyidagwis 2 (Indian reserve)]
Name origin
Like Wakeman Sound, the river was named by
Daniel Pender for William Plowden Wakeman, a clear at the Esquimalt Royal Navy Dockyard from 1866 to 1872. Wakeman had arrived from England on the
SS Tynemouth on September 17, 1862, and died in the naval hospital at Esquimalt in 1872.
[ British Columbia Coast Names, 1592-1906: Their Origin and History, Capt. John T. Walbran, published for the Geographic Board of Canada, Ottawa, 1909 (republished for the Vancouver Public Library by J.J. Douglas Ltd, Vancouver, 1971, quoted in the BC Names/GeoBC entry for Wakeman Sound]
See also
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List of rivers of British Columbia
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Wakeman (disambiguation)
