Coneehaw Rock

Coneehaw Rock (54˚10'00" 132˚56'00" Off Gunia Point, NW side of Graham I, QCI). Blakow-Coneehaw and Gunia are both corruptions of the name of the head chief of Kiusta village at the time of initial European contact. William Douglas of the Iphigenia Nubiana, sent to the QCI by John Meares in 1788, was the first fur trader to encounter this powerful figure; the two men exchanged names in a complex Haida ceremony. The chief became well known to visitors, some of whom referred to Parry Passage,...

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