What is "gwayasdums"

Gwayasdums is a village of the Kwakwaka'wakw peoples on the west side of Gilford Island in the Johnstone Strait region of the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada. The village, located on Retreat Pass, is on Gwayasdums Indian Reserve No. 1. Other spellings of the name are Kwaustums and gwa'yasdams and Gwa'yasdams and Gwa’yasdams.

The locality has also been known as Health Bay, also the name for an adjoining body of water at which is a side bay. Health Lagoon is nearby Gwayasdums just to the south at .