Sapir Point

Sapir Point (50˚15'00" 127˚48'00" N entrance to Klaskish Inlet, Brooks Bay, NW side of Vancouver I). Named to honour influential anthropologist and linguist Edward Sapir (1884–1939), who spent much time studying the languages and cultures of First Nation groups on the BC coast. He was born in Poland and educated in the US, where he became a student of Franz Boas. Between 1910 and 1925 he organized and ran the Canadian national museum’s anthropological division, where he wrote a seminal...

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