Dead Point


Dead Point (50˚34'00" 126˚34'00" N side of Harbledown I, Beware Passage, W end of Johnstone Str). This Kwakwaka’wakw reserve is the site of Tzatsisnukomi (T’sadzisnukwame’) or New Vancouver, a community that was settled about 1891 by members of the Da’naxda’xw First Nation, who are an amalgamation of the Da’naxda’xw (Tenaktak) and Awaetlala people of Knight Inlet. Most residents moved away from the village to Ft Rupert and Alert Bay in the 20th century, but a settlement was in...

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