"Salt chuck" in a surprising place

[Theresa Kishkan]

I'm 48 and have heard and used the term all my life (I confess, long before
I knew it was a Chinook term...!). And here on the Sechelt Peninsula, it's
used all the time, often abbreviated to "chuck". Putting a boat in the chuck
(as opposed to fresh water), watching the chuck, living by the chuck...And
of course walking to Skookumchuck Narrows!

Theresa Kishkan


>Here in BC I grew up on the term saltchuck - in fact I had no idea it
>came from Chinook until about ten years ago.   I just assumed it was a
>nautical english term.
>
>My wife Catherine just walked by and noted that in the 1970s in Ocean
>Falls the salt water was only ever refered to as the chuck.
>
>Bernard
>Lillooet BC
>