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Skidegate ( Haida: Hlg̱aagilda ) is a Haida community in Haida Gwaii (formerly the Queen Charlotte Islands) in British Columbia, Canada. It is located on the southeast coast of Graham Island, the largest island in the archipelago, and is approximately west of mainland British Columbia across Hecate Strait. Skidegate, which is located on Skidegate Indian Reserve No. 1 and was formerly home to the Skidegate Mission is also the northern terminal for the BC Ferries service between Graham Island and Alliford Bay on Moresby Island.
Skidegate was so named in the early 19th century, after its chief, according to tradition. The community was a hub for the trade of otter furs.
The Haida Heritage Centre is located in Skidegate on the beach at Kay Llnagaay.
Usage examples of "skidegate".
July morning the sea, sky, and beach of Skidegate were rosily smoothed into one.
I had become part, belonging as much to sky as to earth, as much to sleeping as waking as I went stumbling over the Skidegate sands.