Alternate Name for British Columbia

Columbus Day is coming up in the U.S., and with it a flood of articles about him. (It's alright, this is not political.)In an ATL based on western North America becoming a British colony under the name New Albion, I named one of the provinces "Western Columbia"(roughly OTL British Columbia), not thinking too much about the name. I just discovered the name "Columbia" , applied to the whole area , came from the Columbia River which in turn was named after the 'Columbus Redviva', an American ship which explored the mouth of the river in 1792.
In my ATL the area was explored by the British earlier, the river named the Norris after the British officer (OTL's Richard Norris) who first claimed it for Britain in 1749.

So keeping the Yankees out, what could be some alternate names for the area?
 
If memory serves, Sir Francis Drake made a stop in both California and in Oregon. If it's a British claim your establishing from 1749, they may try to name part of it Drakesland after their forerunning countryman's exploration of the area.

Otherwise you can always rely on the mainstays of colonial American naming by either butchering native words or by naming it after prominent aristocracy from the homeland.
 
Some maps named it New Hanover till Victoria gave it its present name - NH was indeed even proposed to her as a potential name in the first place.
 
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