Dodge Cove
| Dodge Cove | |
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| Unincorporated community | |
A view of Dodge Cove
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 Dodge Cove
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| Coordinates: 54°17′16″N 130°23′15″W / 54.28777°N 130.3875°WCoordinates: 54°17′16″N 130°23′15″W / 54.28777°N 130.3875°W | |
| Dodge Cove | Established 1907 |
| Population (April 2015) | |
| • Total | 29 (estimated) |
Dodge Cove is a small unincorporated community of fewer than 100 people, located on Digby Island, British Columbia, Canada across from the city of Prince Rupert. In April 2015, the community had an estimated total of 29 residents. Dodge Cove does not have paved roads, automobiles or shopping centres, and was named in 1907 after George Blanchard Dodge. It was built over a Tsimshian village named Kanagatsiyot. A commercial ferry service has been proposed to service the area and other nearby communities. In contemporary times, construction of a liquefied natural gas facility was proposed, which some of the community's residents oppose.
Life is simple in Dodge Cove, with no paved roads, no stores or shopping centres, and no automobiles. It has been estimated to be among the ten smallest unincorporated communities in British Columbia. Some community residents commute to work at Prince Rupert by crossing Prince Rupert Harbour. The Prince Rupert School District contracts with the Metlakatla Ferry Services company to provide round trips between Prince Rupert and Dodge Cove and Metlakatla five days a week. Dodge cove is also accessible by water taxi. Community residents voted against the installation of a water filtration system in 2011 per concerns of "unaffordable user fees", and have been advised since 1988 to boil their water.
Dodge Cove was named in 1907 by the Canadian Department of Marine and Fisheries, Ottawa, after George Blanchard Dodge of the Dominion Land Survey, who had surveyed Prince Rupert Harbour in 1906 for the Canadian federal government. The community was built over a Tsimshian village named Kanagatsiyot, which occupied the location for thousands of years. According to the mythology of the Tsimshian, this village was the birthplace of Txamsem, the Tsimshian trickster. Circa 1915, a salted herring business was run in Dodge Cove by Lionel Crippen.
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