12 Dec B.C. renames Queen Charlotte Islands (The Globe and Mail)
The Queen Charlotte Islands will soon be no more. The archipelago will be officially renamed Haida Gwaii, Premier Gordon Campbell announced yesterday at the signing of a reconciliation protocol. The traditional name, whose English translation is “islands of the people,” will now appear on all new official provincial maps and websites. “The change is a very important symbolic gesture,” said Guujaaw, who is president of the Haida Nation and who goes by a single Haida name… go to article