Port Neville

{{Short description|Bay in British Columbia, Canada}} {{Use Canadian English|date=February 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2023}} thumb|right|300px|Building in Port Neville, 2008 '''Port Neville''' is a bay, port and locality on the north side of Johnstone Strait, south of Call Inlet,<ref>[http://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/24109.html BC Names/GeoBC entry "Port Neville (port)"]</ref> in the Central Coast region of British Columbia, Canada.

The locality of Port Neville, which had a post office until 2013, is located on the east side of the narrows that form the opening into Johnstone Strait of the port, which is really an inlet, at {{coord|50|30|00|N|126|05|00|W|display=inline|source:BCNames|name=Port Neville (locality)}}.<ref>[http://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/27219.html BC Names/GeoBC entry "Port Neville (locality)"]</ref>

'''Port Neville Indian Reserve No. 4''', or '''Port Neville 4''', is located at the upper end of the port, to the south of Fulmore Lake at {{coord|50|34|00|N|125|56|00|W|display=inline|source:BCNames|name=Port Neville IR No. 4}}<ref>[http://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/65611.html BC Names/GeoBC entry "Port Neville 4 (Indian reserve)"]</ref> It is 14.9 ha. in size and is under the governance of the Tlowitsis Tribe band government of the Kwakwaka'wakw peoples.<ref>[https://fnp-ppn.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/FNP/Main/Search/RVDetail.aspx?RESERVE_NUMBER=07111&lang=eng Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Reserve/Settlement Village Detail]</ref> It is one of 11 reserves governed by the Tlowitsis,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://fnp-ppn.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/FNP/Main/Search/FNReserves.aspx?BAND_NUMBER=637&lang=eng |website=Crown–Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada |publisher=Government of Canada |title=Indian and Northern Affairs Canada Reserves/Settlements/Villages Detail |access-date=2014-05-05 }}</ref> another of which is also on Port Neville, '''Hanatsa Indian Reserve No. 6''', or '''Hanatsa 6''', 95.1 ha. in size, is located on the south shore of the upper end of Port Neville<ref>[https://fnp-ppn.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/FNP/Main/Search/RVDetail.aspx?RESERVE_NUMBER=07113&lang=eng Indian and Northern Affairs Canada Reserve/Settlement/Village Detail]</ref> at {{coord|50|32|00|N|125|58|00|W|display=inline|source:BCNames|name=Hanatsa IR No. 6}},<ref>[http://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/65609.html BC Names/GeoBC entry "Hanatsa 6 (Indian reserve)"]</ref> to the east of '''Hanatsa Point''' at {{coord|50|31|47|N|125|59|54|W|display=inline|source:BCNames|name=Hanatsa Point}},<ref>[http://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/6619.html BC Names/GeoBC entry "Hanatsa Point"]</ref> which is at a narrows between the upper end of the port and the wider area towards its opening.

On the east shore of the port is '''''xudzedzalis''''', a fort utilized by the Matilpi group of Kwakwaka'wakw.<ref>[http://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/54844.html BC Names/GeoBC entry "xudzedzalis (fort)"]</ref> at {{coord|50|31|20|N|126|03|40|W|display=inline|source:BCNames|name=xudzedzalis (fort)}}. Its name means "fort on flat on beach".

This "very snug and commodious port" was named by Captain Vancouver probably in honour of Lieutenant John Neville of the Royal Marines but there is doubt about who he referred to.<ref name = Akrigg>{{Citation | last =Akrigg | first =G.P.V. | last2 =Akrigg | first2 =Helen B. | title =British Columbia Place Names | place =Vancouver | publisher =UBC Press | year =1986 | edition =3rd, 1997 | isbn =0-7748-0636-2 | url-access =registration | url =https://archive.org/details/britishcolumbiap0000akri_w1q9 }}</ref>{{rp|212}}

==See also== *List of settlements in British Columbia {{GeoGroup}}

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Category:Ports and harbours of British Columbia Category:Unincorporated settlements in British Columbia Category:Central Coast of British Columbia Category:Kwakwaka'wakw