Yuquot
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Yuquot (), also known as Friendly Cove, is a small settlement of around six people—the Williams family of the Mowachaht band—plus two full-time lighthouse keepers, located on Nootka Island in Nootka Sound, just west of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. It was the summer home of Chief Maquinna and the Mowachaht/Muchalaht (Nuu-chah-nulth) people for generations, housing approximately 1,500 people in 20 traditional wooden longhouses. The name means "Wind comes from all directions" in Nuu-chah-nulth.
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It sits within the topics History of Vancouver Island, National Historic Sites in British Columbia and Nootka Sound region.
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Place details
- Locality
- Area A (Kyuquot/Nootka/Sayward)
- Region
- British Columbia
- Country
- Canada
- Population
- 0
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Canada
- Located in
- Strathcona Regional District
- Image
- Yuquot National Historic Site -Friendly Cove Nootka.JPG
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- heritage designation
- national historic site of Canada
- Commons category
- Yuquot
- located in/on physical feature
- Nootka Island
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- History
- Early exploration and settlement
- Nootka Crisis
- 19th century
- 20th century
- 21st century
- See also
- References
- External links
- Further reading
Yuquot (), also known as Friendly Cove, is a small settlement of around six people—the Williams family of the Mowachaht band—plus two full-time lighthouse keepers, located on Nootka Island in Nootka Sound, just west of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. It was the summer home of Chief Maquinna and the Mowachaht/Muchalaht (Nuu-chah-nulth) people for generations, housing approximately 1,500 people in 20 traditional wooden longhouses. The name means "Wind comes from all directions" in Nuu-chah-nulth.
The community is located within the Strathcona Regional District but like all Indian Reserve communities is not governed by nor represented in the regional district. The Mowchaht/Muchalaht First Nations are rather part of the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council, which unites the governments of the indigenous communities of the Island's West Coast.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yuquot” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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