Tahini Cove

Tahini Cove (49˚26'00" 124˚10'00" SE end of Lasqueti I, E of Young Point, Str of Georgia). This name was suggested in 1985 by Vancouver architect Wilfred Buttjes, who owned land beside Young Point, after his boat, the Tahini. The proposal was supported by a petition of local residents and adopted in 1986. Tahini can be translated as “river of the king salmon” (from the Tlingit First Nation words t’á, for king salmon, and héen, for river). The Tahini R flows S across the BC-Alaska...

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