Thetis Cove
Thetis Cove is on the east side of
Esquimalt Harbour . It, as with other Thetis features, was named after HMS
Thetis , a Royal Navy ship that sailed west coast waters in the 1850s.
1. Andrew Scott, The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 2009), 588-589.
Mentions of this place in the documents
Portage Inlet Hamilton, George Alexander to Merivale, Herman 27 September 1852, CO 305:3, no. 8866,
269. Boys, Reverend Thomas to Cuffe, 3rd Earl of Desart John Otway O'Conner 11 October
1852, CO 305:3, no. 9263, 495.
The Colonial Despatches Team.
Thetis Cove. The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871 , Edition 2.4, ed. The Colonial Despatches Team. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria.
https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/thetis_cove.html .
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