Esowista Peninsula

Esowista Peninsula (49˚05'00" 125˚50'00" S of Meares I, from Long Beach to Tofino, W side of Vancouver I). According to Eli Enns, a Tla-o-qui-aht political scientist and co-author of a 2008 Ecotrust Canada report on Nuu-chah-nulth governance structures, this name can be translated as “clubbed to death.” It refers to a war in which scattered Tla-o-qui-aht groups first came together as a unified force to battle a neighbouring First Nation. The ancient whaling village of Esowista...

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