Ohala Islets

Ohala Islets (53˚39'00" 132˚23'00" In Juskatla Inlet, S of Masset Inlet, Graham I, QCI). Named by the hydrographic service in 1953 after Ohala (or Oahla), a slave girl owned by Steilta, head chief of the Masset Eagle crest. In his 1915 memoir In the Wake of the War Canoe, Anglican missionary William Collison tells the story of a conflict over the ownership of certain slaves that arose between Steilta and a Kaigani chief named Kinneelawash-Haung. After Steilta’s death, Collison apparently...

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