Kwaikans Island

Kwaikans Island (53˚43'00" 132˚24'00" Off NW side of Masset Inlet, Graham I, QCI). Named in 1878 by George Mercer Dawson, who modified a Haida term meaning “big rocky island” and applied it to this feature. Around WWI it appeared on some maps as Watson I, and was known as Reject I in the 1920s (a name still in local use), as logs that were unwanted by the nearby Buckley Cove sawmill, which only cut spruce, were stored there in a cove on the island’s SE side (known locally as Reject...

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