Mahatta River

Mahatta River (50˚28'00" 127˚48'00" S side of Quatsino Sd, NW Vancouver I). Mahatta is a Kwakwala name meaning “having sockeye salmon,” and the Koskimo First Nation once had a summer village here. A remote forestry camp was established just E of the mouth of the Mahatta in the 1950s by Alaska Pine & Cellulose Co (which later became Rayonier Canada Ltd). About 300 people were working at the site by 1967. The camp, which had its own post office, was dismantled in the late 1980s when a road...

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