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Beaver Cove (British Columbia)

Coordinates: 50°32′30″N 126°51′29″W / 50.54167°N 126.85806°W / 50.54167; -126.85806 (Beaver Cove (cove))
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Beaver Cove is a cove on Northern Vancouver Island, immediately to the south of the junction of Johnstone and Broughton Straits.[1] The community of the same name is located at the head of the cove, as was a now-former logging community, Englewood.[2][3] The mouth of the Kokish River is at the head of the cove, southeast of the site of Englewood.[4] Also on the cove, on its southeast shore northeast of the community of Beaver Cove, is the community of Kokish.[5]

Name origin

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Like Beaver Harbour near Port Hardy, Beaver Cove was named for the Beaver, a Hudson's Bay Company vessel that was the first steamship on the northwest coast of North America.[6]

See also

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50°32′30″N 126°51′29″W / 50.54167°N 126.85806°W / 50.54167; -126.85806 (Beaver Cove (cove))