Payne Channel

Payne Channel (53˚20'00" 129˚28'00" Between Hinton I and SE side of Pitt I, N of Squally Channel). Dorothy Richardson Payne became a clerical assistant in the Victoria office of the hydrographic service in 1940. In 1944 it was proposed that another feature, a narrows SW of Kitimat, also be named for her, but this became Hoey Narrows after objections from hydrographic HQ in Ottawa. Staff there wanted to see “not more than one feature named after any one person.” A senior civil servant...

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