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Xmaat'in Official Name

Pronounced: "matt-IN"

Feature Type: Site

Latitude: 55°04'00" Position at: CENTRE

Longitude: 130°08'10"

Gazetteer Map: 103O/1
Relative Location: E side of Portland Canal, near entrance, Cassiar Land District

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Xmaat'in	Official Name
Pronounced:	"matt-IN"
Feature Type:	Site
Latitude:	55°04'00"	Position at: CENTRE
Longitude:	130°08'10"
Gazetteer Map:	103O/1
Relative Location:	E side of Portland Canal, near entrance, Cassiar Land District
Return all features within 5Km proximity	View geographical name location on a 1:250K mapsheet

Origin Notes and History

Formerly Dogfish Bay Indian Reserve 42, Kincolith Band. Extinguished per Nisga'a Treaty and transferred, with extensions, to fee-simple interest: Lots 5432, 627, 628, 628A, & 7234, Cassiar Land District. Name changed to Xmaat'in (site) per Nisga'a Treaty, Appendix F-3, effective 11 May 2000.
Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office

x ma tint "caught in salmon weir"; Dogfish Bight. Fishing (house at mouth of creek). Also "where all valuable things at". The ma/or maa morphemes in place names, as explained by one Nisga'a elder, denotes "vastness". Therefore the meaning cited or referenced here may be describing the place as "a vast area rich in resources/salmon" T'in could be referring to the "fishing technology" or the "valley".
Source: Nisga'a Tribal Council / Ayuukhl Nisga'a Department, Aiyansh BC