Koskimo Bay


Koskimo Bay (50˚28'00" 127˚53'00" SW side of Quatsino Sd, NW end of Vancouver I), Koskimo Islands (50˚28'00" 127˚51'00" E side of Koskimo Bay). According to anthropologist Wilson Duff, Koskimo means “people of Kosaa” and refers to a site on the N coast of Vancouver I, at the mouth of the Stranby R, where this group once lived. The Koskimo (known today as the Gusgimukw) are an important branch of the Kwakwaka’wakw First Nation; their traditional territories were to the S and E of...

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