Iskit/Secret Island

[terry glavin]

coquitlam, more closely translated, is "smelly fish slime." two stories i've
heard about that - it denotes the abundance of oolichan spawning at the
mouth of the coquitlam river (prior to recent stock collapses it was still
like that - i have drift-gillnetted for oolichan across the mouth of the
coquitlam by canoe); the other is that the coquitlam people used to work in
the sockeye oil rendering, for the musqueam, by what is now the seaplane
dock, which used to be directly in front of the b.c. penitentiary, which is
now all condos.

jeez i sound like an old man.

tg

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Cleven <mike_cleven at HOTMAIL.COM>
To: CHINOOK at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG <CHINOOK at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
Date: 21 April 2000 10:30
Subject: Re: Iskit/Secret Island


>>From: Pass/Kishkan/High Ground Press <high_ground at SUNSHINE.NET>
>>Reply-To: Pass/Kishkan/High Ground Press <high_ground at SUNSHINE.NET>
>>To: CHINOOK at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
>>Subject: Re: Iskit/Secret Island
>>Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 08:18:07 -0700
>>
>>>From British Columbia Place Names, by G.P.V. and Helen B. Akrigg:
>>
>>Iskut River, flows S.W. into Stikine River. Possibly from the Nisgha (sic)
>>word meaning "stinking"; otherwise of unknown origin.
>
>Doesn't that book also attribute (falsely) "Coquitlam" as "land of the
>stinking fish"?  Must have been a lot of stinking going on.  Probably all
>those oolichans ;-=)
>>
>>And Mike, I think Brother Twelve's island was De Courcy!
>
>Our Boston Sikhs should reference that story; one of the weirder bits of
>post-Contact BC history.....
>
>M
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