Delkatla is a community on the east side of the mouth of Masset Inlet on Graham Island in the Haida Gwaii archipelago in British Columbia, Canada.
[1] The community was named in association with Dal Ḵáahlii[2] (formerly Delkatla Inlet), a small arm of Masset Inlet, from a X̱aad Kíl word meaning "water flowing in and out" or ""water drifting in to the inside"[3] for the slough-like inlet which extends inland from the villages of Ka-yung and New Masset.
[4][5] The first farm in Haida Gwaii was established on the east side of the flats in the 1880s.
[6] Though noted by Wilson Duff in 1954 as having on inhabitants, Delkatla began its life as a successful real estate promotion during a real estate and mining boom on Haida Gwaii in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.
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