Broughton Strait is a strait off the north coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, separating that island from Malcolm and Cormorant Islands, on the farther side of which is the larger Queen Charlotte Strait, which also lies beyond the western end of Broughton Strait, and the mouth of Knight Inlet. Farther east from Broughton Strait is the beginning of Johnstone Strait, which leads via Discovery Passage to the Strait of Georgia.

Communities on the Broughton Strait include Port McNeill, on Vancouver Island, and Sointula and Alert Bay, on Malcolm and Cormorant Islands respectively.

During World War I

Broughton Strait was closed to shipping traffic via mines strung between Malcolm Island and Vancouver Island at McNeill point.[1] Two small torpedo boats patrolled the waters at night.[1]

Bibliography

Notes
  1. 1 2 Robertson 2012, p. 514
References
  • Robertson, Leslie A. & the Kwagu'l Gixsam Clan (2012). Standing Up with Ga'axsta'las: Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom (2012 ed.). University of British Columbia Press. ISBN 9780774823869. - Total pages: 596
  • "Broughton Strait". BC Geographical Names.

See also

50°37′00″N 127°03′00″W / 50.61667°N 127.05000°W / 50.61667; -127.05000


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