Koga Islet

Koga Islet (52˚25'00" 131˚23'00" Off NW Burnaby I, S of Huxley I, E of S Moresby I, QCI). Named in 1962 by the hydrographic service after the Koga people, members of the Haida First Nation, who originally owned a village on Cumshewa Inlet. The Koga were unlucky, however. Historian Kathleen Dalzell tells the story of their gambling misfortune, where the entire village, after losing their homes and all their property to gamblers from Skedans, offered themselves as the stake. They lost once...

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