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«2- another particular friend, I called Point Atkinson” . The reading for Point Atkinson on nalidical charts of today is Lat. N. 49*, 19’ 51 sec. by Long. 123*, 15’ 2 49 sec. and Captain Vancouver is believed to have come ashore a few hundred feet west north west of this point and to have been 3 greeted by local Indians.-'^ But while the actual geographical reading for Point Atkinson has never been in doubt, the ”partici’ilar friend” after v/hom it was named has remained an unsolved mystery. Captain John VJalbran is of the opinion that the point was named after Mr, Thomas Atkinson, master R.N., a follower for years of Lord Nelson and subsequently master of the”Yictory” at the Battle of Trafalgar^. The point does, hov;ever, appear named on Vancouver's 1792 chart of the southern portion of what is now the coast of British Columbia, but once surveyed and named it appears 1. George Vancouver, Voyage of Discovery around the World, 179^^ as quoted in K.M. Smith, N,J. Anderson and K.I. Beamish Nature VJest Coast, Discovery Press, Vancouver 1973, p. 13. 2. Canadian Chart jj= 35^6, Howe Sound, 194^. 3. P. Copeland, Interview with writer - 6 May, 1975. 4. J.T. V/albran, British Columbia Coast Names, The Library’s Press, Vancouver 1909, reprinted 1971, p. 26.