Metlakatla

Metlakatla (54˚20'00" 130˚26'00" NW side of Venn Passage facing Digby I, just W of Prince Rupert), Metlakatla Bay (54˚19'00" 130˚28'00" NW side of Digby I). The name of this famous village and mission site is an adaptation of the Tsimshian word for the area, Metla-kah-thla, which has been translated as “a passage between two bodies of salt water.” Metlakatla was an important Tsimshian First Nation settlement before its residents moved to Ft Simpson in the early 1830s. They returned in...

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