Clotchman Island

Clotchman Island (49˚37'00" 126˚34'00" One of the Spanish Pilot Group, SW of Bligh I, Nootka Sd, W side of Vancouver I). Clotchman is a variation of klootchman, the Chinook jargon word for woman or female. Chinook was a pidgin language used on the W coast by First Nation groups and early traders and settlers. In 1934, regional hydrographer Henri Parizeau attempted to change this name to Carrasco I, after the Spanish pilot Juan Carrasco, who sailed with both Manuel Quimper in 1790 and José...

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