Masset
Script error: No such module "other uses". Template:DMCA Template:DMCA
Script error: No such module "Settlement short description".Page Module:Infobox/styles.css has no content.Page Template:Infobox settlement/styles.css has no content.
Masset | |
|---|---|
| Village of Masset[1] | |
| Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:InfoboxImage/data' not found. | |
| Script error: No such module "Infobox mapframe". | |
| Lua error in Module:Location_map at line 526: Unable to find the specified location map definition: "Module:Location map/data/Canada British Columbia" does not exist. | |
| Coordinates: Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | British Columbia |
| Region | Haida Gwaii |
| Regional district | North Coast |
| Registered | 1907 |
| Incorporated | 11 May 1961 |
| Government | |
| • Governing body | Masset Village Council |
| • Mayor | Sheri Disney |
| Area | |
• Total | Script error: No such module "ConvertIB". |
| Elevation | Script error: No such module "ConvertIB". |
| Population (2021)[2] | Template:Fix comma category |
| Population (2021)[2] | |
• Total | Template:Fix comma category |
| • Density | Script error: No such module "ConvertIB". |
| Template:Pluralize from text | Template:Pluralize from text |
| Time zone | UTC−8 (PST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-7 (PDT) |
| Template:Pluralize from text | Template:Pluralize from text |
| Highways | Template:Jct |
| Waterways | Dixon Entrance |
| Website | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:If preview' not found. |
Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters".
Masset (/ˈmæsɪt/; formerly Massett)[1] is a village in the Haida Gwaii archipelago in British Columbia, Canada. It is located on Masset Sound on the northern coast of Graham Island, the largest island in the archipelago, and is approximately 50 km (31 mi) west of mainland British Columbia. It is the primary western terminus of Trans-Canada Highway 16 (the Yellowhead Highway) and is served by Masset Airport, with flights to Vancouver and Prince Rupert. During the maritime fur trade of the early 19th century, Masset was a key trading site. It was incorporated as a village municipality on May 11, 1961.[1]
Name
The name Masset was a gift from the captain of a Spanish vessel that was repaired with the assistance of the Haida citizens of Atewaas, Kayung, and Jaaguhl. These three villages accepted the gift and adopted the name Masset to commemorate what might be the first ever contact between Europeans and the Haida. Masset came from the Haida word masst, or "large island".
During the early years of Canadian colonization the name Masset and the post office were adopted by the (former) Reverend Charles Harrison as tactic for his land-selling scheme.
Currently, the name Masset is in use by two places: The Village of Masset – a municipality under Canadian legislation – and by the village of Old Massett, the original recipient of the name and a village under the Constitution of the Haida Nation. Masset's name in the local dialect of the Haida language is Uttewas, "white slope", probably referring to a small hill south of the village.[1]
According to Template:Harvp,[3] Captain Douglas, on his second visit from Nootka Sound aboard the Iphigenia on 19 June 1789, named the bay leading to the inlet McIntyre's Bay. This name was used on the charts of Dixon and Meares. The American traders called the inlet, Hancock's River as shown in Ingraham's chart of 1792 after the American brig Hancock. In 1853 H.N. Knox of the Royal Navy, mate on Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:WPSHIPS utilities/data' not found., made a survey sketch of the harbour when the name Masset was adopted by the British. A survey was made in 1907 by Captain Learmouth on HMS Egeria.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Masset had a population of 838 living in 399 of its 518 total private dwellings, a change of Script error: No such module "Percentage". from its 2016 population of 793. With a land area of Template:Cvt, it had a population density of Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Sortkey' not found. in 2021.[4]
Oceanographic research
From 1942 to 1942, the British Columbia Shore Station Oceanographic Program was collecting coastal water temperature and salinity measurements for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans from Masset everyday during this period.[5]
Military base
Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote".
Canadian Forces Station Leitrim Detachment Masset, established as Naval Radio Station Masset in 1943, is a Canadian Forces facility used to gather signals intelligence for the Communications Security Establishment Canada and the Canadian Forces Intelligence Branch.[6] The equipment at CFS Masset is operated remotely from CFS Leitrim near Ottawa, Ontario.
Climate
The climate, moderated by a warm Pacific current from Japan, is generally mild with no extremes in temperature, oceanic (Cfb). Annual temperature varies only 20 degrees Celsius but is variable and unpredictable - even within a 24-hour period. Average rainfall is 1,337.4 mm (52.65 in) with snowfall of 75.3 cm (29.65 in)[7] and there is generally a breeze, most often out of the southeast when it is raining, and the northwest when it is sunny.
Summer temperatures are in the 15 to 20 °C (59 to 68 °F) range and the days are long - May, June, July boasting 18 hours of daylight. August and May general have the most sun but there is a fair degree of rain throughout the summer months. Winter months are mild with temperatures in the 0–8 °C (32–46 °F) range and while precipitation is usually in the form of rain there can be some snowfall. Conditions can become severe without warning and Masset has registered wind gusts to 160 km/h (99 mph).
Although it is located at over 54 degrees north, rainfall follows a Mediterranean pattern. It is one of the northernmost places with this characteristic. Script error: No such module "weather box".
See also
References
Page Template:Reflist/styles.css has no content.
- ^ a b c d Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Profile table, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population - Masset, Village (VL) [Census subdivision], British Columbia". Statistics Canada. February 9, 2022. Retrieved January 11, 2025.
- ^
Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Walbran, John T., Captain (1971) [1909]. British Columbia Place Names, their Origin and History (facsimile reprint ed.). Vancouver, BC / Toronto, ON: Douglas & McIntyre. p. 323. ISBN 0-88894-143-9. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 13 July 2008.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), British Columbia". Statistics Canada. February 9, 2022. Retrieved February 20, 2022.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."British Columbia Lightstation Sea-Surface Temperature and Salinity Data (Pacific), 1914-present - Open Government Portal". open.canada.ca. Treasury Board of Canada. Retrieved February 11, 2021.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Robinson, Bill (March 1989). "Canada and Signals Intelligence: The Electronic Polar Watch". Ploughshares Monitor: 21–23.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Canadian Climate Normals 1971-2000 Station Data - Climate - Environment and Climate Change Canada". climate.weather.gc.ca. Environment and Climate Change Canada. January 19, 2011. Retrieved January 20, 2023.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Hourly Data Report for August 07, 2014 - Climate - Environment and Climate Change Canada". climate.weather.gc.ca. Environment and Climate Change Canada. October 30, 2011. Retrieved January 20, 2023.
External links
Page Module:Side box/styles.css has no content.Page Template:Sister project/styles.css has no content.
Page Module:Side box/styles.css has no content.Page Template:Sister project/styles.css has no content.
- No URL found. Please specify a URL here or add one to Wikidata.
- The Canadian Encyclopedia
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Navbox/configuration' not found.
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Authority control/config' not found.
