Kashutl Inlet

Kashutl Inlet (50˚09'00" 127˚18'00" Extends N from Kyuquot Sd, NW side of Vancouver I), Kashutl River (50˚12'00" 127˚18'00" Flows S into the head of Kashutl Inlet). Kashutl probably comes from the Chinook jargon word kokshut (also kokshittle or kokshuttle), meaning “to break” or “broken,” and thus, by association, “useless” or even “destroyed.” Various historians have suggested that the source of the word was the Nuu-chah-nulth First Nation term for “dead,” which...

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