Yaculta

English

Etymology

From Halkomelem yəqʷəɬteʔχ.

Noun

Yaculta (plural Yacultas or Yaculta)

  1. (historical) Synonym of Lekwiltok.
    • 1994, Simon Baker, Khot-La-Cha: The Autobiography of Chief Simon Baker, Douglas & McIntyre, page 1:
      Her grandfather took one hundred war canoes, each with twenty men, to where the Yacultas lived to ask for peace to stop the many years of fighting.
    • 1984, Barry M. Gough, Gunboat Frontier: British Maritime Authority and Northwest Coast Indians, 1846-1890, University of British Columbia Press, page 130:
      Cape Mudge also marked the southern extremity of the Kwakiutl, the home of the Lekwiltok or, more commonly a century ago, the Yaculta.

Proper Noun

Yaculta

  1. A village in British Columbia, Canada, on the southern tip of Quadra Island.
    • 2019 November 15, Simon Little, “Stranded container barge refloated, moved after running aground on Quadra Island”, in Global News‎[1]:
      The Nana Provider became stuck just before 8 p.m. on Saturday on the southwest coast of the island between Quathiaski Cove and Yaculta.
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