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Indigenous Place Names in the Southern Gulf Islands

Southern Gulf Islands, Salt Spring Island, Galiano island, Mayne Island, Pender, Saturna,

SENĆOŦEN Place Names 

Active Pass, Mayne & Galiano Islands                                SḴŦAḴ
Beaver Point, Salt Spring Island ȾESNO¸EṈ¸
Bedwell Harbour, Pender Island ILEĆEN
Boat Nook, Pender Island ȻAḴSEN
Boat Passage, Saturna Island X̱IX̱EYES
Brown Ridge, Saturna Island  ŚAḴETSES
Bruce Bight, Saturna Island ÁMEĆEṈ
Cape Keppel, Salt Spring Island ĆU¸ÁÁN
East Point, Saturna Island ṮEḴTEḴSEN
Fulford Harbour, Salt Spring Island W̱ENÁ¸NEĆ
Ganges Harbour, Salt Spring Island SYOW̱T
Gowlland Point, Pender Island SQE¸NÁNW̱
Hope Bay, Pender Island TELOSEṈ¸
Isabella Point, Salt Spring Island TÁLEN
Mount Tuam, Salt Spring Island  SĆU¸ÁÁN
Pender Island SDȺY¸ES
Oak Bluff, Pender Island S₭E₭IṈ¸ES
Otter Bay, Pender Island SKÁ¸EṮEM
Port Browning, Pender Island X̱EL¸ISEN¸
Shark Cove, Pender Island ŚW̱SEȽḰSET
Shingle Bay, Pender Island X̱EX̱I¸ÁĆSEṈ
Stanley Point, Pender Island ȻAḴSEN
Tumbo Channel TIU¸IL¸ES
Tumbo Island TEMOSEṈ¸
Wallace Point, Pender Island X̱I¸X̱NEĆÁNEM

Hul’q’umi’num Place Names

Active Pass                                                                                 Sqthaqa’lh
Beaver Point, Salt Spring Island Ts’usna’am
Bedwell Harbour, Pender Island St’eyus
Boat Passage, Saturna Island Xwixwyus
Booth Bay, Salt Spring Island Ste’lan
Burgoyne Bay, Salt Spring Island Xwaaqw’um
Dionisio Point, Galiano Island Qwulwi’us
East Point, Saturna Island Tl’uqtuqsun
Fulford Harbour, Salt Spring Island Hwnen’uts
Ganges Harbour, Salt Spring Island Shiya’hwt
Long Harbour, Salt Spring Island Stsa’tx
Lyall Harbour, Saturna Island Tl’uqayum
Mayne Island Skwanchenum
Musgrave Point, Salt Spring Island Qw’atth’a’qw
Montague Harbour, Galiano island Sum’nuw
Mount Maxwell, Salt Spring Island Hwmet’utsum
Mount Tuam, Salt Spring Island Ts’uween
Otter Bay, North Pender Island Sq’e’utl’um
Pender Canal Tl’e’ulthw
Retreat Cove, Galiano Island Xetthequm
Southey Point, Salt Spring Island P’q’unup
St. Mary Lake, Salt Spring Island Tl’elhum
Vesuvius Bay, Salt Spring Island Stu’lan
Walker’s Hook, Salt Spring Island S’yuhuye’mun
Winter Cove, Saturna Island Xwixwiyus
Elmark Andres Galiano Island