Jap Island

Jap Island (51˚23'00" 127˚07'00" Head of Smith Inlet, SE of Rivers Inlet), Jap Point (54˚24'00" 130˚29'00" W side of Tsimpsean Peninsula, just NW of Prince Rupert). At least five geographical features in BC have shared this racist term for Japanese people. It was WWII patriotism, not sensitivity, that likely resulted in Jap Inlet on Porcher I being changed to Hunt Inlet in 1946. Jap Mtn, S of Courtenay on Vancouver I, became Nikkei Mtn in 1982 after a request by the National Assoc of...

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