Cumshewa is a former village of the Haida people located on the north flank of Cumshewa Inlet in the Haida Gwaii of the North Coast of British Columbia, Canada. It is named for Cumshewa, an important Haida chief during the maritime fur trade.
Name
Cumshewa is a Heiltsuk word meaning "rich at the mouth of the river". The ancient Haida name for the village was Hlḵinul Llnagaay, anglicized as Thlinul, or Tlkinool by John Work during a Hudson's Bay Company census in 1839. ==See also==