Wannock Cove

Wannock Cove (51˚39'00" 127˚30'00" N side of Rivers Inlet, W of Moses Inlet), Wannock River (51˚40'20" 127˚15'35" Connects Owikeno Lk to the head of Rivers Inlet). According to BC historians Helen and Philip Akrigg, this name means “river spirit” in the Oowekyala language spoken by the region’s First Nation inhabitants, the Oweekeno people. John Walbran, an earlier coastal historian, mistranslated the word as “poison,” because “visitors to the tribe, evidently unwelcome, had the...

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