[3] The village of New Vancouver (Tzatsisnukomi) is located at Dead Point on the north side of the island, at the west end of Beware Passage, on Dead Point Indian Reserve No.
Harbledown Post Office was opened on April 1, 1902, with a school built on the island in 1910.
[7] Harbledown Island was believed to have been named in 1865 by Captain Pender during his survey of these waters.
The origin of the name is believed to be Harbledown, Kent, a village near Canterbury which may have been the home of one of Pender's officers.
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