Welcome to Port Douglas ...

Although we found mention of Port Douglas during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> We believe that Port Douglas had a post office at one time. We have done a cursory search and haven't been able to find any evidence that the community still exists..

We've added Port Douglas to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Port Douglas, please Contact Us.

Google driving directions from your current location to Port Douglas (Patience, this may take a moment).

The origin (or the toponymy) of Port Douglas: Named for Sir James Douglas, Governor of British Columbia.

A typical abbreviation for Port Douglas: Prt. Douglas

Time Zone: The area where we believe that Port Douglas might be (or was) located is in the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT) and observes daylight saving time. The time zone in French: PST- Heure Normale du Pacifique (HNP), PDT- Heure Avancée du Pacifique (HAP).

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Port Douglas ...

Looking for more information about Port Douglas? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Port Douglas, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Port Douglas.

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Province of British Columbia: https://www.gov.bc.ca/

Footnotes ...

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If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer. For example, we might find a sentence like "He went north past Port Douglas and then turned east". While Port Douglas could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Port Douglas as a placeholder with the hope that we'll be able to add more information in the future.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Port Douglas could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong . Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.