Gilford Island

[2] Turnour Island is to its south, across Tribune Channel; and the entrance to Thompson Sound is to its east.

It was named by Captain Pender about 1867 for Elizabeth Henrietta, wife of Lord Gilford and daughter or Sir Arthur E. Kennedy, Governor of Vancouver Island at the time HMS Tribune was assigned to the Pacific Station, 1862–1864, under Lord Gilford's command.

There is on the island an historic indigenous community of the Kwakwaka'wakw people called Gwayasdums or Gwa'yasdams, which was destroyed by the Nuxalk in 1856 though today has been reoccupied.

[6] Another former village, Metap, was at the head of Viner Sound on the island's northwest coast, though today there is only an Indian reserve, officially named "Meetup Indian Reserve No.

7, is at the tip of Islet Point on the northwest side of the island, 0.70 ha.