Kwalate Point

Kwalate Point (50˚47'00" 125˚39'00" W side of Knight Inlet, opposite Glacier Bay). This Kwakwala name, adopted in 1950, means “place of the salmonberrry sprouts.” The fresh young sprouts of salmonberry plants were a favourite spring salad food for BC’s First Nation groups. Recent geological and archeological evidence has revealed that the ancient village of Kwalate, at the mouth of nearby Kwalate Ck, home to the Da’naxda’xw people, was destroyed in the late 16th century by a tsunami...

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