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2005-03-29 22:20:45This story is from the Greater Vancouver Book by Chuck Davis. You can find more stories from the book or even purchase it here
by Philip & Helen Akrigg
[b:f70262fddc]Alice Lake ?[/b:f70262fddc]This lake north of Squamish was named after the wife of Charles Rose, who came to the area in the 1880s.
[b:f70262fddc]Ambleside ?[/b:f70262fddc]Morris Williams, who settled here in 1912, had earlier lived in Ambleside in the Lake District in England.
[b:f70262fddc]Anmore ?[/b:f70262fddc]This village north of Ioco was named by F.J. Lancaster, a local "part-time homesteader". Lancaster had a wife, Annie, and a daughter, Leonore, and from their names he coined "Annore", which the locals modified into "Anmore".
[b:f70262fddc]Annacis Island ?[/b:f70262fddc]Originally "Annance's Island", having been named after Fran鏾is Annance, a Hudson's Bay Co. clerk, who was with Chief Factor James McMillan when he sailed up the Fraser River in 1827 and founded Fort Langley.
[b:f70262fddc]Barnet ?[/b:f70262fddc]When James MacLaren, an Ottawa lumberman, opened a sawmill here he named the settlement after his mother whose maiden name was Elizabeth Barnet.
[b:f70262fddc]Barnston Island ?[/b:f70262fddc]After George Barnston, a clerk with Chief Factor McMillan when he founded Fort Langley in 1827.
[b:f70262fddc]Belcarra ?[/b:f70262fddc]Judge Norman Bole, the Irishman who gave Belcarra this Gaelic name, said that it meant "the fair land of the sun".
[b:f70262fddc]Black Mountain ?[/b:f70262fddc]Was covered with charred trees when its name was adopted in the early 1860s.
[b:f70262fddc]Blackie Spit [/b:f70262fddc]旳fter Walter Black, New Westminster's first blacksmith, who bought the spit in 1875.
[b:f70262fddc]Boundary Bay ?[/b:f70262fddc]Is intersected by the International Boundary. Bowen Island ?One of the many features in Howe Sound named after ships or officers that served under Admiral Lord Howe when, in 1794, he won his great victory "The Glorious First of June".
[b:f70262fddc]Bowen Island[/b:f70262fddc] is named after James Bowen, master of Howe's flagship, Queen Charlotte.
[b:f70262fddc]Brackendale ?[/b:f70262fddc]After Thomas Hirst Bracken, first postmaster here (1906-12).
[b:f70262fddc]Brighouse ?[/b:f70262fddc]After Sam Brighouse, who arrived in B.C. in 1862. That year, he, John Morton and William Hailstone ("The Three Greenhorns") purchased "The Brickmakers' Claim", today Vancouver's West End. In 1864 Brighouse established a ranch on Lulu Island.
[b:f70262fddc]Bridgeport ?"[/b:f70262fddc]Bridge" because of the two bridges which at the end of 1889 linked Richmond with the mainland. "Port" reflect the hopes of the locals when the connection was built.
[b:f70262fddc]Britannia Beach ?[/b:f70262fddc]Takes its name from the Britannia Range behind it. Captain G.H. Richards, R.N., named the mountains after hms Britannia, which served in the Battle of St. Vincent (1797) and the Battle of Trafalgar (1805).
[b:f70262fddc]British Properties [/b:f70262fddc]in the early 1930s Britain's wealthy Guinness family secured rights to this area from the Municipality of West Vancouver. The Lions Gate Bridge was built as part of the Guinness scheme to develop "The British Properties," a name which became officially recognized by the provincial government in 1979, long after it appeared on district maps.
[b:f70262fddc]Brockton Point ?[/b:f70262fddc]In 1859 Francis Brockton, chief engineer of H.M. surveying vessel Plumper, discovered coal in Coal Harbour.
[b:f70262fddc]Brownsville ?[/b:f70262fddc]Named after Ebenezer Brown, who came to B.C. during the Fraser Gold Rush. He farmed here and ran a very respectable saloon in New Westminster. Brownsville stood opposite New Westminster, and was once connected to it by ferry.
[b:f70262fddc]Brunette River ?[/b:f70262fddc]This name, descriptive of the stream's brownish water, was given around 1860 by William Holmes, the first settler in Burnaby. Peat give the water its colour.
[b:f70262fddc]Buntzen Lake ?[/b:f70262fddc]Named after Johannes Buntzen, a native of Denmark who became in 1897 the first general manager of the B.C. Electric Railway Company.
[b:f70262fddc]Burkeville ?[/b:f70262fddc]After Stanley Burke, president of Boeing Aircraft Company of Canada in 1943 when this wartime housing estate was established on Sea Island for workers in the aircraft factories. The name was chosen in a competition among Boeing employees.
[b:f70262fddc]Burnaby ?[/b:f70262fddc]This city gets its name from Burnaby Lake, which lies within its borders. The latter was named after Robert Burnaby. Born in 1828, the fourth son of a Leicestershire parson, Burnaby spent his early years working in the Customs House in London. In 1858 he came to British Columbia with a letter of introduction from Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, the British Secretary of State for the Colonies. With this qualification, he was appointed private secretary to Colonel Moody of the Royal Engineers. Burnaby became closely associated with the survey that the R.E.s were making of this area, and the lake was named after him. A person who knew Burnaby in B.C. described him as a "myrthful active honest pleasant little fellow". After leaving Moody's service, Robert Burnaby engaged in various business enterprises, chiefly in Victoria. He returned to England in 1874, and died there in 1878. It is a bit ironic that so minor a person has his name given to one of the province's largest urban areas.
[b:f70262fddc]Burquitlam ?[/b:f70262fddc]A manufactured name consisting of the first syllable of "Burnaby" and the last two syllables of "Coquitlam".
[b:f70262fddc]Burrard Inlet ?[/b:f70262fddc]In June 1792 Captain George Vancouver named this inlet "Burrard Channel", after his friend Sir Harry Burrard (1765-1840), who had served with him aboard H.M.S. Europa in the West Indies in 1785. Burrard was commander-in-chief of the Mediterranean Fleet from 1823 to 1826. The Spaniards, who explored the inlet about the same time as Vancouver, named in "Boca de Floridablanca", after the Conde de Floridablanca, the Spanish prime minister of the day.
[b:f70262fddc]Canoe Passage [/b:f70262fddc]during the gold rush of 1858 miners, seeking to elude naval patrols checking for mining licences, sneaked into the Fraser River by this minor entrance. Probably such traffic was limited to canoes.
[b:f70262fddc]Capilano River ?"[/b:f70262fddc]Capilano" is the anglicized form of a personal name that originally came from the Nanoose area but, through marriage, is now held by men of mixed Squamish and Musqueam background. The last Chief Capilano, who died about 1870, had a home beside the river which now bears his name.
[b:f70262fddc]Caulfeild ?[/b:f70262fddc]Francis William Caulfeild, an English gentleman, loved the beautiful wild flowers, woods and beaches in this area. In 1899 he bought the land between Cypress Creek and Point Atkinson and proceeded to lay out a village. Disliking the North American grid where straight streets and avenues intersect at right angles, he laid out a village of the English type with winding lanes following the natural contours of the wooded slopes. Francis Caulfeild (note the spelling) died in 1934, aged about ninety.
[b:f70262fddc]Cheakamus River ?[/b:f70262fddc]In the Squamish Indian language "cheakamus" means "salmon weir place".
[b:f70262fddc]Cleveland Dam ?[/b:f70262fddc]Named in 1954 after E.A. Cleveland, first Chief Commissioner of the Greater Vancouver Water District. Cloverdale ?When the first settler, William Shannon, arrived here in 1875, he found wild clover growing luxuriantly all around. Accordingly, he named the area Clover Valley. When a settlement grew up, it took the name of Cloverdale.
[b:f70262fddc]Coal Harbour ?[/b:f70262fddc]Gets its name from the discovery here, in 1859, of seams of coal ranging in thickness from 4 to 15 inches. (See also Brockton Point.)
[b:f70262fddc]Como Lake ?[/b:f70262fddc]Possibly named after beautiful Lake Como in northern Italy, but just as possibly after Como, a Kanaka (Hawaiian) who was in the party that sailed up the Fraser with Chief Factor McMillan in 1827 to found Fort Langley. It has been suggested that Como is a compound, "Co" for Coquitlam, and "mo" for Port Moody.
[b:f70262fddc]Coquitlam ?[/b:f70262fddc]From the Halkomelem Indian word meaning "stinking of fish slime". during a great winter famine the Coquitlam people sold themselves into slavery to the more numerous and prosperous Kwantlen tribe. The new slaves, while butchering large quantities of salmon for their masters, got covered with fish slime梙ence the name.
[b:f70262fddc]Dam Mountain ?[/b:f70262fddc]So named in 1894 because of its view over a waterworks dam on the Capilano River. D
[b:f70262fddc]Deadman Island ?[/b:f70262fddc]There are various Deadman Islands in B.C., the name indicating a place where the Indians left their dead. Deas Island ?After John Sullivan Deas, a mulatto tinsmith who was foreman at a cannery here in the 1870s. He originally came to B.C. with the Royal Engineers.
[b:f70262fddc] Deeks Creek ?[/b:f70262fddc]After John F. Deeks, whose Deeks Sand & Gravel Company started its operations here on Howe Sound in 1908.
[b:f70262fddc]Deer Lake ?[/b:f70262fddc]In 1867 Charles Seymour opened a "wayside house" on Douglas Road, close to where the Royal Engineers had established a game reserve on the Oakalla prison site. This became a popular rendezvous for deer hunters.
[b:f70262fddc]Derby Reach ?[/b:f70262fddc]This stretch of the Fraser River provides the only survival of "Derby", the name given to Fort Langley when it was expected to become the capital of the new mainland crown colony of British Columbia. The name honored the Prime Minister of Britain, the Earl of Derby.
[b:f70262fddc] Dollarton ?[/b:f70262fddc]After Captain Robert Dollar, who owned a lumber mill here. Born in Scotland in 1844, Dollar is chiefly remembered today because of his Dollar Steamship Line, a major one in its day.
[b:f70262fddc]Douglas ?[/b:f70262fddc]This border crossing-point, near White Rock, is named after Benjamin Douglas, a pioneer settler.
[b:f70262fddc]Douglas Island ?[/b:f70262fddc]Originally Manson Island, after Donald Manson, a member of the expedition which founded nearby Fort Langley in 1827. However, after Governor Douglas had purchased the island and presented it to his daughter Cecilia, it became known as Douglas Island.
[b:f70262fddc]Dundarave ?[/b:f70262fddc]An early resident, Russell Macnaghten, Professor of Greek at the University of British Columbia, named this part of West Vancouver after Dundarave Castle in Scotland, the ancestral home of Clan Macnaghten. Dundarave, which should rhyme with "have", comes from a Gaelic word having reference to a two-oared boat.
[b:f70262fddc]Eburne ?[/b:f70262fddc]After W.H. Eburne, farmer and storekeeper, who became the first postmaster here in 1892. In 1916 the mainland portion of Eburne was renamed Marpole. Edmonds ?After Henry Valentine Edmonds, born in Ireland in 1837, one of the original promoters of the Vancouver-New Westminster interurban railway.
[b:f70262fddc]Elsje Point ?[/b:f70262fddc]Pronounced "El-shuh". This point, at the end of the Vancouver Maritime Museum's breakwater, commemorates Mrs. W.M. Armstrong, n閑 Elsje De Ridder, a former trustee of the Vancouver Museum. Through extraordinary effort, Elsje secured for it the adjacent Heritage Harbour. An accomplished lady, she was also a founder of the nearby Vancouver Academy of Music.
[b:f70262fddc]English Bay ?[/b:f70262fddc]This and nearby Spanish Banks commemorate the meeting of the English (under Captain Vancouver) and the Spanish (under Galiano and Vales) in this area in June 1792.
[b:f70262fddc]English Bluff ?[/b:f70262fddc]Immediately to the south lies Boundary Bluff, where the international boundary meets the Pacific. English Bluff got its name because it lay on the British side of the line.
[b:f70262fddc]Ewen Slough ?[/b:f70262fddc]After Alexander Ewen, an early cannery owner. A dour Scot, he was reputed never to have laughed.
[b:f70262fddc]Essondale ?[/b:f70262fddc]After Dr. Henry Esson Young, who was Provincial Secretary when the provincial mental hospital was established here. As Minister of Education from 1907 to 1916, Dr. Young was responsible for the founding of the University of British Columbia.
[b:f70262fddc]Fairview ?[/b:f70262fddc]Named by L.A. Hamilton, the C.P.R. land commissioner. An 1891 newspaper advertisement announced that "the clearing of the Land being nearly completed in that new and beautifully situated part of the VANCOUVER TOWNSITE known as FAIRVIEW", the C.P.R. was prepared to sell lots there.
[b:f70262fddc]False Creek ?[/b:f70262fddc]So named by Captain G.H. Richards, R.N. in the late 1850s, presumably because, despite its promising entrance, this small inlet soon ended in mud flats. (In England the word "creek" is used for any narrow indentation in a coast.)
[b:f70262fddc]Fannin Range ?[/b:f70262fddc]North of Vancouver. Named after John Fannin (1839-1904), the first curator of the Provincial Museum, Victoria.
[b:f70262fddc]Ferguson Point ?[/b:f70262fddc]Named after Alfred Graham Ferguson, the first chairman of the Vancouver Parks Board. (Since Ferguson was an alien, the swearing-in ceremony was tactfully omitted.) He died in San Francisco in 1903.
[b:f70262fddc]Fisherman's Cove ?[/b:f70262fddc]So named around 1888, when some Newfoundland fishermen and their families settled here.
[b:f70262fddc]Fort Langley ?[/b:f70262fddc]After Thomas Langley, for many years a director of the Hudson's Bay Company. He died in 1829. In October 1824 the H.B.C.'s Governor Simpson sent Chief Trader James McMillan on a reconnaissance of the lower Fraser Valley, with a view to establishing a post there. Later, in 1827, McMillan founded Fort Langley. The original fort was abandoned in 1837 and a new post (the present Fort Langley) was built several miles upstream, where the land was better for agriculture. The Crown Colony of British Columbia was proclaimed at Fort Langley in 1858, but the capital was soon moved to New Westminster. Fort Langley then went into a slow decline. The Hudson's Bay Company closed its store here in 1896 and the buildings of the old fort rotted away. Restoration of the fort began in 1957-58 as part of the celebration of British Columbia's centennial.
[b:f70262fddc]Fraser River ?[/b:f70262fddc]Named after Simon Fraser (1776-1862). See pages 31-32. Furry Creek ?After Oliver Furry, trapper and prospector, who in 1898 staked claims to rich copper deposits close to Britannia Beach. Gastown ?After the Hastings Mill was built on the south shore of Burrard Inlet in 1867, a colourful character names "Gassy Jack" Deighton arrived and opened a saloon there. The little settlement that grew up around Deighton's establishment became known as Gastown. for a time the name was accepted and appeared on the British Admiralty chart for the area. In 1870, however, the inhabitants renamed their community Granville, in honour of Earl Granville, the British Secretary for the Colonies.
[b:f70262fddc]Georgia Strait ?[/b:f70262fddc]of. This is the euphonious "Grand Canal de Nuestra Senora del Rosario la Marinera" of the Spanish explorers. Captain Vancouver wrote that it was on 4 June 1792, the same day that he proclaimed British sovereignty over the northwest Pacific coast beyond Cape Mendocino, that he "honoured" this "interior sea" with the name of the Gulf of Georgia. The honour lay in the fact that "Georgia" was derived from the name of His Majesty King George III. On 27 November 1858, Captain G.H. Richards, R.N., wrote to the Hydrographer of the Navy that he had modified the name to Georgia Strait, which he deemed more appropriate.
[b:f70262fddc]Gleneagles ?[/b:f70262fddc]The Gleneagles subdivision, formed around 1927, took the name of an adjacent golf course. The latter had been named after the Gleneagle links in Perthshire.
[b:f70262fddc]Goat Mountain ?[/b:f70262fddc]This mountain north of Vancouver was named in 1894 by hunters who had shot two mountain goats there. Golden Ears ?This name for the Peaks on Mount Blanshard (q.v.) was used as early as 1862 when Commander Mayne wrote of "the beautiful peaks known as Golden Ears."
[b:f70262fddc]Granville Island ?[/b:f70262fddc]After the British Secretary for the Colonies, the second Earl Granville appointed 10 December 1868.
[b:f70262fddc]Grouse Mountain ?[/b:f70262fddc]Received its name in 1894 when it was climbed by a party which included E.A. Cleveland, who in later years became Chief Commissioner of the Greater Vancouver Water District. They called it "Grouse Mountain" because of the blue grouse they had shot on it..
[b:f70262fddc]Guildford ?[/b:f70262fddc]When the directors of Grosvenor Laing, the original developers of the town centre here needed a name for it, they borrowed the name of Guildford in the county of Surrey in England, where their company had its headquarters.
[b:f70262fddc]Haney ?[/b:f70262fddc]After Thomas Haney (1841-1916), who settled here in 1876. The settlement was originally known as Haney's Landing, and later as Port Haney. With the increasing importance of roads, the centre of Haney moved away from the river and up to the highway.
[b:f70262fddc]Hazelmere ?[/b:f70262fddc]H.J. Thrift, a pioneer here, said he named the place not so much because he came from Hazelmere in England as because here, on his farm, he had both a thick growth of hazel bush and a small pond or "mere".
[b:f70262fddc]Hollyburn Mountain ?[/b:f70262fddc]West Vancouver's first white settler, John Lawson planted holly by the side of the "burn" (a Scottish word for a stream) flowing across his property. Putting the two words together, he coined "Hollyburn" as the name for his place.
[b:f70262fddc]Horseshoe Bay ?[/b:f70262fddc]So named because of its shape. Howe Sound ?Named by Captain Vancouver after Admiral the Rt. Hon. Richard Scrope, Earl Howe. He won his most famous victory in 1794, in the battle that has gone down in the annals of the Royal Navy as "the Glorious First of June". On that day Howe not only defeated a superior French fleet but captured seven of the ships in it. When he returned from this great victory, the royal family visited him aboard his flagship, H.M.S. Queen Charlotte, and the King presented him with a sword with a diamond-studded hilt valued at three thousand guineas.
[b:f70262fddc] Indian Arm ?[/b:f70262fddc]Explored by the Spanish in June 1792 who met a few Indians here. From them they learned that the Indians applied the name "Sasamat" (q.v.) to Indian Arm and area.
[b:f70262fddc]Ioco ?[/b:f70262fddc]From the first letters of the Imperial Oil Company which owns the large refinery here.
[b:f70262fddc]Iona Island ?[/b:f70262fddc]Called McMillan Island after a pioneer settler, Donald McMillan (1848-1901) until he himself renamed it Iona, after the island where St. Columba in 563 began christianizing the Scots.
[b:f70262fddc]Jericho ?[/b:f70262fddc]Takes its name from Jeremiah ("Jerry") Rogers (1818-79). As early as 1864 or 1865 he sent axemen from his base at Jerry's Cove (Jericho) to fell the giant trees that once grew on Point Grey.
[b:f70262fddc]Kerrisdale ?[/b:f70262fddc]In 1905 when the B.C. Electric built a station on its Steveston interurban line at what is now West 41st Avenue in Vancouver, the company's general manager called on a young Scottish couple named MacKinnon who had recently settled in the district and invited Mrs. MacKinnon to name the new station. Mrs. MacKinnon's choice, "Kerrysdale" after her home in Scotland, soon became Kerrisdale.
[b:f70262fddc]Kitsilano ?[/b:f70262fddc]Around 1905 when the C.P.R. was looking for a name for its new Vancouver subdivision, it approached a local ethnologist, Professor Charles Hill-Tout. He suggested "Kitsilano", an anglicized form of the name of a Squamish man who had lived in Stanley Park in the mid 1800s. The name is held today by a descendant.
[b:f70262fddc]Kwomais Point ?[/b:f70262fddc]This feature on Boundary Bay has a Halkomelem Indian name meaning "dog face".
[b:f70262fddc]Ladner ?[/b:f70262fddc]After William and Thomas Ladner, who took up land here in 1868. Born in Cornwall, the brothers came to B.C. in 1858, They prospected in the Cariboo, ran packtrains, and were merchants there before turning to farming.
[b:f70262fddc]Langara ?[/b:f70262fddc]This part of Vancouver preserves the name that the Spanish navigator Eliza gave to Point Grey in 1791. His Punta de Langara was named in honour of the Spanish admiral Don Juan de Langara.
[b:f70262fddc]Langley ?[/b:f70262fddc]Takes it name from nearby Fort Langley (q.v.) Lions, The ?These landmark mountains were known the Indians as "Chee-chee-yoh-hee", meaning "The Twins". The first white settlers called them "Sheba's Paps" [breasts]. Around 1890 Judge Gray, noting their resemblance to crouching lions, suggested that the entrance to Vancouver harbour be called "The Lions' Gate".
[b:f70262fddc]Locarno Park ?[/b:f70262fddc]Commemorates the pact, supposed to outlaw wars, signed in 1925 in Switzerland. Lonsdale ?This part of North Vancouver is named after Arthur Heywood-Lonsdale of Shavington Hall, Shropshire, who with a kinsman once owned the waterfront between Moodyville and the Capilano River.
[b:f70262fddc]Lost Lagoon ?[/b:f70262fddc]So named by the Indian poetess Pauline Johnson, who enjoyed canoeing here. The lagoon was "lost" in that, before the Stanley Park causeway was built in 1912, it drained into Coal Harbour at low tide, and so briefly ceased to exist.
[b:f70262fddc]Lulu Island ?[/b:f70262fddc]Gallantly named by colonel R.C. Moody of the Royal Engineers after a young actress, Lulu Sweet, who was a member of the first theatrical company to visit British Columbia. A Victorian newspaper said of her performance, "Miss Lulu's dancing was most chaste and beautiful. She was fairly smothered with bouquets and loudly encored."
[b:f70262fddc] Lynn Creek ?[/b:f70262fddc]After John Linn (note the correct spelling), one of the Royal Engineers who came to British Columbia in 1859. After the contingent was disbanded in 1863, the officers returned to England, but most of the sappers, including Linn, remained in B.C. He lived with his family at the mouth of this creek and died in 1876.
[b:f70262fddc]Maillardville ?[/b:f70262fddc]After Father Edmond Maillard, O.M.I., a native of St. Malo, Brittany. He was placed in charge of the Parish of Our Lady of Lourdes, founded in 1909 to minister to the needs of the French-Canadians brought out from Quebec to work in the Fraser Mills. He died in France in 1966, aged 86.
[b:f70262fddc]Marpole ?[/b:f70262fddc]Formerly called Eburne, but renamed Marpole in 1916. After Richard Marpole (1850- 1920) who, after early railway experience in England came out to Canada and worked under contract for the Canadian Pacific Railway. In 1886 he became superintendent of construction and operation for the C.P.R.'s Pacific Division.
[b:f70262fddc]Mary Hill ?[/b:f70262fddc]The Royal Engineers, who saw this hill as a good site for a citadel to protect New Westminster in the event of an American invasion, named it after the wife of their colonel, Richard Moody.
[b:f70262fddc]Milner ?[/b:f70262fddc]After Viscount Milner (1854-1925), British statesman and colonial administrator.
[b:f70262fddc]Minnekhada Park & Lodge ?[/b:f70262fddc]This Sioux Indian name meaning "water rattling by", was given by an American who farmed here before World War I. The "Scottish hunting lodge", built in 1934 by E.W. Hamber (Lieut.-Governor of B.C., 1936-40), passed to Clarence Wallace, (Lieut.- Governor 1950-55). The Greater Vancouver Regional District now owns both the park and the lodge.
[b:f70262fddc]Minoru Park ?[/b:f70262fddc]In about 1907 a racetrack named Minoru Park was opened here. Minoru was a famous racehorse owned by King Edward VII. Mitchell Island ?After the first man to farm on the island, Alex Mitchell.
[b:f70262fddc]Mount Blanshard ?[/b:f70262fddc]In 1859 Captain G.H. Richards, R.N., named this mountain behind Haney after Richard Blanshard, first governor of Vancouver Island (1850-51).
[b:f70262fddc]Mount Burke ?[/b:f70262fddc]Named by Captain G.H. Richards, R.N., about 1860, probably after Edmund Burke (1730-97), the famous statesman, orator and author.
[b:f70262fddc]Mount Fromme ?[/b:f70262fddc]After J.M. Fromme, "Father of Lynn Valley", who in 1899 built the first house in the valley. From 1924 to 1929 he was the reeve of North Vancouver District. He died, aged 83, in 1941.
[b:f70262fddc]Mount Garibaldi ?[/b:f70262fddc]After the Italian patriot and soldier Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-82). The name was conferred by Captain Richards, R.N., of H.M. surveying vessel Plumper about 1860. A story goes that the name owes something to there being an Italian sailor aboard the ship when the mountain was in view on Garibaldi's birthday. (Also Garibaldi Provincial Park.)
[b:f70262fddc]Mount Seymour ?[/b:f70262fddc]After Frederick Seymour, Governor of the Crown Colony of British Columbia. He died of acute alcoholism aboard H.M.S. Sparrowhawk at Bella Coola in 1869.
[b:f70262fddc]Mount Strachan ?[/b:f70262fddc]This mountain north of Hollyburn is named after Admiral Sir Richard Strachan (pronounced "Strawn"). In 1805 he won a brilliant victory over the French, capturing four of their ships of the line.
[b:f70262fddc]Musqueam ?[/b:f70262fddc]Simon Fraser, in his account of his journey to the mouth of the Fraser River, notes that "here we had the good fortune to escape the cruelty of the Musquiamme." Musqueam means "place of iris-like plants."
[b:f70262fddc]New Westminster ?[/b:f70262fddc]Fort Langley on the south bank of Fraser River being too vulnerable to American attack, Colonel Richard Moody advised Governor Douglas that the capital of the new colony of British Columbia should be moved to where New Westminster now stands. Moody favoured the name "Queenborough", but Douglas wanted "Queensborough". A request was then sent to London that the Queen herself choose the name for the new capital. Her Majesty chose "New Westminster". Aware of Queen Victoria's role, the people of New Westminster take pride in its unofficial name, "The Royal City".
[b:f70262fddc]Newton ?[/b:f70262fddc]After a pioneer New Westminster settler and harness-maker. His real name was Villeneuve but, being in an anglophone community, he changed it to Newton (which, like Villeneuve, means "new town").
[b:f70262fddc]Nicomekl River ?[/b:f70262fddc]Preserves the name of an Indian tribe that once lived in the area but was wiped out by small pox, probably about 1770. Noon Breakfast Point ?Captain Vancouver's Lieut. Peter Puget applied this name to a small point near the tip of Point Grey in 1792. It was adopted officially in 1981.
[b:f70262fddc]North Vancouver ?[/b:f70262fddc]About 1860 Philip Hicks started a sawmill here. Overwhelmed by debts he owed Prescott ("Sue") Moody, who had supplied him with logs, Hicks had to let Moody have the mill. The name "Moodyville" came into use for the small settlement that grew up around Moody's mill. In 1902 the name of Moodyville was changed to North Vancouver.
[b:f70262fddc]Oakridge ?[/b:f70262fddc]This name began with the construction in 1949 of the Oakridge Trolley Bus Garage at the corner of Oak Street and West 41st Avenue.
[b:f70262fddc]Ocean Park ?[/b:f70262fddc]This name was chosen about 1910 by the Rev. W.P. Goard for his Ocean Park Syndicate which was made up of prominent Lower Mainland Methodists wanting land for recreational and educational purposes.
[b:f70262fddc]Pacific Spirit Park ?[/b:f70262fddc]In December 1988 the provincial government transferred title to 763 hectares (1885 acres) of undeveloped land from the University Endowment Lands (q.v.) to the Greater Vancouver Regional District to form a park. A resulting competition to provide a name saw young Sherry Sakamoto winning with this one. According to Miss Sakamoto, she chose the name to signify "Gateway to the Pacific and spiritual ground to becoming one with nature."
[b:f70262fddc]Pitt River ?"[/b:f70262fddc]Pitt's River" is first mentioned in 1827, in the journal of James McMillan, the founder of Fort Langley. Apparently he named it in honour of William Pitt the Younger (1759- 1806), Prime Minister of Britain during much of the Napoleonic Wars. Point Atkinson ?Named by Captain Vancouver after an unidentified "particular friend". He may have been Thomas Atkinson, master of H.M.S. Victory during the Battle of Trafalgar.
[b:f70262fddc]Point Garry ?[/b:f70262fddc]At the S.W. tip of Lulu Island, this point is named after Nicholas Garry, deputy governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, 1822-35. The name was given by Captain Aemilius Simpson of the H.B.C.'s maritime service in 1827 when he brought the schooner Cadboro into the mouth of the Fraser, the first vessel to enter the river.
[b:f70262fddc]Point Grey ?[/b:f70262fddc]Named by Captain Vancouver "in compliment to my friend Captain George Grey of the Navy" who commanded H.M.S. Victory at the Battle of St. Vincent in 1797. the Spaniards, arriving a year before Vancouver, had named Point Grey "Punta de Langara". To the Indians it was "Ulksen", ("The Nose").
[b:f70262fddc]Point Roberts ?[/b:f70262fddc]Captain Vancouver named this after his "esteemed friend", Lieut. Henry Roberts. Roberts, a gifted cartographer, had served with him on Captain Cook's second and third voyages of discovery. Originally Roberts was designated to command the Royal Navy's 1791 expedition to explore our coast. Only when Roberts was no longer available did that historic commission pass to Captain Vancouver.
[b:f70262fddc]Port Coquitlam ?[/b:f70262fddc]See Coquitlam.
[b:f70262fddc]Port Guichon ?[/b:f70262fddc]After Laurent Guichon (1836-1902). French by birth, he took part in the Cariboo gold rush of 1861 and subsequently ranched in the interior. In 1883 he began farming on a large tract of land here in the Fraser delta. The "port", once a steamboat halt, is now silted in.
[b:f70262fddc]Port Hammond ?[/b:f70262fddc]After John Hammond, a farmer, and William Hammond, a civil engineer, young Englishmen who owned the townsite at the time of the building of the C.P.R.
[b:f70262fddc]Port Mann ?[/b:f70262fddc]After Donald Mann of the firm of Mackenzie and Mann, the builders of the Canadian Northern Railway. Port Mann was originally intended to be the road's Pacific terminus. Mann was knighted in 1911. His railway became part of the Canadian National Railway in 1923.
[b:f70262fddc]Port Moody ?[/b:f70262fddc]Named in 1860 in honour of Colonel Richard Clement Moody (1813-87), commanding officer of the "Columbia Detachment" of the Royal Engineers (6 officers and 158 N.C.O.s and men) that served in B.C. from 1858 to 1863. Colonel Moody returned to Britain when his detachment was disbanded, and subsequently rose to the rank of major-general.
[b:f70262fddc]Prospect Point ?[/b:f70262fddc]This Stanley Park viewpoint was known in the nineteenth century as "Observation Point". Porteau ?An adaptation of the French "porte d'eau", meaning "watergate". The name was suggested about 1908 by a Mr. Newberry of the Deeks Sand and Gravel Company.
[b:f70262fddc]Queensborough ?[/b:f70262fddc]This community has taken a name once proposed for New Westminster. (q.v.) Reifel Island ?This island, formerly known as Smoky Tom Island, was purchased in 1929 by George C. Reifel. When the Canadian Wildlife Service bought much of the island in 1972, George H. Reifel donated the rest of the island to form the Reifel Bird Sanctuary.
[b:f70262fddc]Richmond ?[/b:f70262fddc]Hugh McRoberts, who had come to B.C. from Australia, established Richmond Farm here in 1861. The farm's name was chosen by one of McRoberts' daughters, who selected the name of a favourite place in Australia.
[b:f70262fddc]Sapperton ?[/b:f70262fddc]The Royal Engineers (traditionally called "sappers") who were sent out to British Columbia in 1858-59 had their original camp beside the townsite of New Westminster. Colonel Moody coined the name "Sapperton" for this base. When members of the corps settled here, they kept the name of Sapperton for their village.
[b:f70262fddc]Sasamat Lake ?[/b:f70262fddc]The Spanish explorers noted that "Sasamat" was the Indian name for the Indian Arm area. It actually was the name of an early Indian village at the mouth of the Seymour River, and can be translated as "lazy people".
[b:f70262fddc]Semiahmoo Bay ?[/b:f70262fddc]Preserves the name of a sub-group of the Straits Salish Indians. Meaning not known.
[b:f70262fddc]Shaughnessy ?[/b:f70262fddc]The C.P.R. named this sub-division after Thomas George Shaughnessy (1853- 1923), an American railroader recruited in 1882 over a glass of Milwaukee beer as general purchasing agent for the C.P.R. Shaughnessy was president of the C.P.R. from 1898 to 1918, he was knighted in 1901 and became Lord Shaughnessy in 1916.
[b:f70262fddc]Siwash Rock ?[/b:f70262fddc]The original Squamish Indian name for this landmark means "standing up". There is a native legend about how three supernatural brothers, "Transformers", came this way in a canoe and changed a bather into the rock. In early years whitemen called this "Ninepins Rock". Its present name, "Siwash", is a Chinook jargon word derived from the French "sauvage" applied to any native Indian.
[b:f70262fddc]Spanish Banks ?[/b:f70262fddc]This name commemorates Captain Vancouver's meeting, on 22 June 1792, with two Spanish ships, the brig Sutil commanded by Galiano and the schooner Mexicana commanded by Valdes. Actually, he found the Spaniards riding at anchor a little south and west of Point Grey.
[b:f70262fddc]Squamish ?[/b:f70262fddc]Takes its name from the local Indian tribe. No meaning is known for "Squamish". Stanley Park ?Well before there was any Vancouver this area, then called Coal Peninsula (see Coal Harbour), was set aside as a military reservation for fortifications that could command the entrance to Burrard Inlet. In 1886 the Vancouver city council asked the federal government for a lease on the land. This was granted for 99 years at a fee of $1.00 a year, an arrangement renewed in 1907. In October 1889 Lord Stanley of Preston, Governor General of Canada, dedicated the new park which took his name.
[b:f70262fddc]Steveston ?[/b:f70262fddc]In 1887 Manoah Steves, a New Brunswicker, settled on Lulu Island. In 1889 W.H. Steves, his eldest son, laid out part of the farm in townlots. It was first planned to name the village simply "Steves", but this soon became the more formal "Steveston".
[b:f70262fddc]Strathcona ?[/b:f70262fddc]This East Vancouver community bears the name of Donald Alexander Smith, Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal (1820-1914), who amassed a fortune through his connections with the Hudson's Bay Company and the Canadian Pacific Railway.
[b:f70262fddc] Sturgeon Park ?[/b:f70262fddc]So named by Captain Vancouver "in consequence of our having purchased of the natives some excellent fish of that kind.
[b:f70262fddc]" Surrey ?"[/b:f70262fddc]The Corporation of Surrey" was created by Letters Patent issued on 10 November, 1879. The new municipality probably owed its name to the fact that it lies south across the Fraser from New Westminster, just as in England the County of Surrey lies south across the Thames from Westminster. Tilbury Island ?After Tilbury, England, where a fort once stood on the Thames downstream from London.
[b:f70262fddc]Tsawwassen ?[/b:f70262fddc]Preserves the name of the local Indian band. The Halkomelem word means "facing seaward".
[b:f70262fddc]Tynehead ?[/b:f70262fddc]Originally "Tinehead", since the head of the Serpentine River is here, but converted into Tynehead by analogy with the River Tyne in the north of England. University Endowment Lands ?The University Endowment Act of 1907 provided for some two million acres of provincial lands to be set aside to produce revenue for the new University of British Columbia. The scheme was never really implemented. The present tiny U.E.L. residential district in Point Grey is a vestige of the plan, which never contributed to the university's finances.
[b:f70262fddc]Vancouver ?[/b:f70262fddc]Named after Captain George Vancouver of the Royal Navy who, from April 1792 until late, 1794, with H.M.S. Discovery and the tender Chatham made his historic survey of the mainland coast of the Pacific Northwest. When, in 1884, the C.P.R. decided to have its Pacific terminus at Coal Harbour and not at Port Moody, W.C. Van Horne, the railroad's general manager, refused to accept either Granville, the new name of Gastown, or Liverpool, the name mooted for what is now the West End. Said Van Horne, "...this eventually is destined to be a great city in Canada. We must see that it has a name that will designate its place on the map of Canada. Vancouver it shall be, if I have the ultimate decision." And Vancouver it became, a distinctive name, but confusing to those who quite logically expect the City of Vancouver to be situated on Vancouver Island.
[b:f70262fddc]Westham Island ?[/b:f70262fddc]Named by Harry Trim, an Englishman from Westham in Sussex. West Vancouver ?In 1912 the western part of North Vancouver broke away to form a new municipality, West Vancouver, with a population of 700. Earlier the name had been used unofficially by the West Vancouver Transportation Company, formed by John Lawson, the "father of West Vancouver" to provide a ferry service with Vancouver.
[b:f70262fddc]Whalley ?[/b:f70262fddc]After Arthur Whalley, who settled here with his family in 1925. the earlier name of Whalley's Corner, shortened to Whalley, was adopted by the community in 1948. Whalley post office became North Surrey in 1966 and Surrey in 1969.
[b:f70262fddc]Whistler ?[/b:f70262fddc]Takes its name from Whistler Mountain (formerly London Mountain). Whistler Mountain is so named because of the numerous whistlers (marmots) living on its slopes. Whistler post office was opened in 1976.
[b:f70262fddc]White Rock ?[/b:f70262fddc]Named for a large white rock on the beach here. An Indian legend has it that the rock was hurled across Georgia Strait by a young chief who had promised his beloved to make their home where the white rock landed.
[b:f70262fddc]Whytecliff ?[/b:f70262fddc]An Admiralty survey named the promontory here White Cliff Point, but in 1914 a real estate developer, Colonel Albert Whyte, persuaded the Pacific Great Eastern Railway (now the B.C. Rail) to name its station here not White Cliff but Whytecliff.
[b:f70262fddc]Willingdon Heights ?[/b:f70262fddc]After the Marquis of Willingdon, (1866-1941), Governor-General of Canada 1926-31.
[b:f70262fddc]Woodward's Landing ?[/b:f70262fddc]After Nathaniel Woodward, who settled here with his son Daniel in 1874.
[b:f70262fddc]Yennadon ?[/b:f70262fddc]E.W. Prowse named this settlement near Haney after his grandfather's former home, Yennadon Manor, a beautiful place on Dartmoor in England.
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[b:f70262fddc]Alice Lake ?[/b:f70262fddc]This lake north of Squamish was named after the wife of Charles Rose, who came to the area in the 1880s.
[b:f70262fddc]Ambleside ?[/b:f70262fddc]Morris Williams, who settled here in 1912, had earlier lived in Ambleside in the Lake District in England.
[b:f70262fddc]Anmore ?[/b:f70262fddc]This village north of Ioco was named by F.J. Lancaster, a local "part-time homesteader". Lancaster had a wife, Annie, and a daughter, Leonore, and from their names he coined "Annore", which the locals modified into "Anmore".
[b:f70262fddc]Annacis Island ?[/b:f70262fddc]Originally "Annance's Island", having been named after Fran鏾is Annance, a Hudson's Bay Co. clerk, who was with Chief Factor James McMillan when he sailed up the Fraser River in 1827 and founded Fort Langley.
[b:f70262fddc]Barnet ?[/b:f70262fddc]When James MacLaren, an Ottawa lumberman, opened a sawmill here he named the settlement after his mother whose maiden name was Elizabeth Barnet.
[b:f70262fddc]Barnston Island ?[/b:f70262fddc]After George Barnston, a clerk with Chief Factor McMillan when he founded Fort Langley in 1827.
[b:f70262fddc]Belcarra ?[/b:f70262fddc]Judge Norman Bole, the Irishman who gave Belcarra this Gaelic name, said that it meant "the fair land of the sun".
[b:f70262fddc]Black Mountain ?[/b:f70262fddc]Was covered with charred trees when its name was adopted in the early 1860s.
[b:f70262fddc]Blackie Spit [/b:f70262fddc]旳fter Walter Black, New Westminster's first blacksmith, who bought the spit in 1875.
[b:f70262fddc]Boundary Bay ?[/b:f70262fddc]Is intersected by the International Boundary. Bowen Island ?One of the many features in Howe Sound named after ships or officers that served under Admiral Lord Howe when, in 1794, he won his great victory "The Glorious First of June".
[b:f70262fddc]Bowen Island[/b:f70262fddc] is named after James Bowen, master of Howe's flagship, Queen Charlotte.
[b:f70262fddc]Brackendale ?[/b:f70262fddc]After Thomas Hirst Bracken, first postmaster here (1906-12).
[b:f70262fddc]Brighouse ?[/b:f70262fddc]After Sam Brighouse, who arrived in B.C. in 1862. That year, he, John Morton and William Hailstone ("The Three Greenhorns") purchased "The Brickmakers' Claim", today Vancouver's West End. In 1864 Brighouse established a ranch on Lulu Island.
[b:f70262fddc]Bridgeport ?"[/b:f70262fddc]Bridge" because of the two bridges which at the end of 1889 linked Richmond with the mainland. "Port" reflect the hopes of the locals when the connection was built.
[b:f70262fddc]Britannia Beach ?[/b:f70262fddc]Takes its name from the Britannia Range behind it. Captain G.H. Richards, R.N., named the mountains after hms Britannia, which served in the Battle of St. Vincent (1797) and the Battle of Trafalgar (1805).
[b:f70262fddc]British Properties [/b:f70262fddc]in the early 1930s Britain's wealthy Guinness family secured rights to this area from the Municipality of West Vancouver. The Lions Gate Bridge was built as part of the Guinness scheme to develop "The British Properties," a name which became officially recognized by the provincial government in 1979, long after it appeared on district maps.
[b:f70262fddc]Brockton Point ?[/b:f70262fddc]In 1859 Francis Brockton, chief engineer of H.M. surveying vessel Plumper, discovered coal in Coal Harbour.
[b:f70262fddc]Brownsville ?[/b:f70262fddc]Named after Ebenezer Brown, who came to B.C. during the Fraser Gold Rush. He farmed here and ran a very respectable saloon in New Westminster. Brownsville stood opposite New Westminster, and was once connected to it by ferry.
[b:f70262fddc]Brunette River ?[/b:f70262fddc]This name, descriptive of the stream's brownish water, was given around 1860 by William Holmes, the first settler in Burnaby. Peat give the water its colour.
[b:f70262fddc]Buntzen Lake ?[/b:f70262fddc]Named after Johannes Buntzen, a native of Denmark who became in 1897 the first general manager of the B.C. Electric Railway Company.
[b:f70262fddc]Burkeville ?[/b:f70262fddc]After Stanley Burke, president of Boeing Aircraft Company of Canada in 1943 when this wartime housing estate was established on Sea Island for workers in the aircraft factories. The name was chosen in a competition among Boeing employees.
[b:f70262fddc]Burnaby ?[/b:f70262fddc]This city gets its name from Burnaby Lake, which lies within its borders. The latter was named after Robert Burnaby. Born in 1828, the fourth son of a Leicestershire parson, Burnaby spent his early years working in the Customs House in London. In 1858 he came to British Columbia with a letter of introduction from Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, the British Secretary of State for the Colonies. With this qualification, he was appointed private secretary to Colonel Moody of the Royal Engineers. Burnaby became closely associated with the survey that the R.E.s were making of this area, and the lake was named after him. A person who knew Burnaby in B.C. described him as a "myrthful active honest pleasant little fellow". After leaving Moody's service, Robert Burnaby engaged in various business enterprises, chiefly in Victoria. He returned to England in 1874, and died there in 1878. It is a bit ironic that so minor a person has his name given to one of the province's largest urban areas.
[b:f70262fddc]Burquitlam ?[/b:f70262fddc]A manufactured name consisting of the first syllable of "Burnaby" and the last two syllables of "Coquitlam".
[b:f70262fddc]Burrard Inlet ?[/b:f70262fddc]In June 1792 Captain George Vancouver named this inlet "Burrard Channel", after his friend Sir Harry Burrard (1765-1840), who had served with him aboard H.M.S. Europa in the West Indies in 1785. Burrard was commander-in-chief of the Mediterranean Fleet from 1823 to 1826. The Spaniards, who explored the inlet about the same time as Vancouver, named in "Boca de Floridablanca", after the Conde de Floridablanca, the Spanish prime minister of the day.
[b:f70262fddc]Canoe Passage [/b:f70262fddc]during the gold rush of 1858 miners, seeking to elude naval patrols checking for mining licences, sneaked into the Fraser River by this minor entrance. Probably such traffic was limited to canoes.
[b:f70262fddc]Capilano River ?"[/b:f70262fddc]Capilano" is the anglicized form of a personal name that originally came from the Nanoose area but, through marriage, is now held by men of mixed Squamish and Musqueam background. The last Chief Capilano, who died about 1870, had a home beside the river which now bears his name.
[b:f70262fddc]Caulfeild ?[/b:f70262fddc]Francis William Caulfeild, an English gentleman, loved the beautiful wild flowers, woods and beaches in this area. In 1899 he bought the land between Cypress Creek and Point Atkinson and proceeded to lay out a village. Disliking the North American grid where straight streets and avenues intersect at right angles, he laid out a village of the English type with winding lanes following the natural contours of the wooded slopes. Francis Caulfeild (note the spelling) died in 1934, aged about ninety.
[b:f70262fddc]Cheakamus River ?[/b:f70262fddc]In the Squamish Indian language "cheakamus" means "salmon weir place".
[b:f70262fddc]Cleveland Dam ?[/b:f70262fddc]Named in 1954 after E.A. Cleveland, first Chief Commissioner of the Greater Vancouver Water District. Cloverdale ?When the first settler, William Shannon, arrived here in 1875, he found wild clover growing luxuriantly all around. Accordingly, he named the area Clover Valley. When a settlement grew up, it took the name of Cloverdale.
[b:f70262fddc]Coal Harbour ?[/b:f70262fddc]Gets its name from the discovery here, in 1859, of seams of coal ranging in thickness from 4 to 15 inches. (See also Brockton Point.)
[b:f70262fddc]Como Lake ?[/b:f70262fddc]Possibly named after beautiful Lake Como in northern Italy, but just as possibly after Como, a Kanaka (Hawaiian) who was in the party that sailed up the Fraser with Chief Factor McMillan in 1827 to found Fort Langley. It has been suggested that Como is a compound, "Co" for Coquitlam, and "mo" for Port Moody.
[b:f70262fddc]Coquitlam ?[/b:f70262fddc]From the Halkomelem Indian word meaning "stinking of fish slime". during a great winter famine the Coquitlam people sold themselves into slavery to the more numerous and prosperous Kwantlen tribe. The new slaves, while butchering large quantities of salmon for their masters, got covered with fish slime梙ence the name.
[b:f70262fddc]Dam Mountain ?[/b:f70262fddc]So named in 1894 because of its view over a waterworks dam on the Capilano River. D
[b:f70262fddc]Deadman Island ?[/b:f70262fddc]There are various Deadman Islands in B.C., the name indicating a place where the Indians left their dead. Deas Island ?After John Sullivan Deas, a mulatto tinsmith who was foreman at a cannery here in the 1870s. He originally came to B.C. with the Royal Engineers.
[b:f70262fddc] Deeks Creek ?[/b:f70262fddc]After John F. Deeks, whose Deeks Sand & Gravel Company started its operations here on Howe Sound in 1908.
[b:f70262fddc]Deer Lake ?[/b:f70262fddc]In 1867 Charles Seymour opened a "wayside house" on Douglas Road, close to where the Royal Engineers had established a game reserve on the Oakalla prison site. This became a popular rendezvous for deer hunters.
[b:f70262fddc]Derby Reach ?[/b:f70262fddc]This stretch of the Fraser River provides the only survival of "Derby", the name given to Fort Langley when it was expected to become the capital of the new mainland crown colony of British Columbia. The name honored the Prime Minister of Britain, the Earl of Derby.
[b:f70262fddc] Dollarton ?[/b:f70262fddc]After Captain Robert Dollar, who owned a lumber mill here. Born in Scotland in 1844, Dollar is chiefly remembered today because of his Dollar Steamship Line, a major one in its day.
[b:f70262fddc]Douglas ?[/b:f70262fddc]This border crossing-point, near White Rock, is named after Benjamin Douglas, a pioneer settler.
[b:f70262fddc]Douglas Island ?[/b:f70262fddc]Originally Manson Island, after Donald Manson, a member of the expedition which founded nearby Fort Langley in 1827. However, after Governor Douglas had purchased the island and presented it to his daughter Cecilia, it became known as Douglas Island.
[b:f70262fddc]Dundarave ?[/b:f70262fddc]An early resident, Russell Macnaghten, Professor of Greek at the University of British Columbia, named this part of West Vancouver after Dundarave Castle in Scotland, the ancestral home of Clan Macnaghten. Dundarave, which should rhyme with "have", comes from a Gaelic word having reference to a two-oared boat.
[b:f70262fddc]Eburne ?[/b:f70262fddc]After W.H. Eburne, farmer and storekeeper, who became the first postmaster here in 1892. In 1916 the mainland portion of Eburne was renamed Marpole. Edmonds ?After Henry Valentine Edmonds, born in Ireland in 1837, one of the original promoters of the Vancouver-New Westminster interurban railway.
[b:f70262fddc]Elsje Point ?[/b:f70262fddc]Pronounced "El-shuh". This point, at the end of the Vancouver Maritime Museum's breakwater, commemorates Mrs. W.M. Armstrong, n閑 Elsje De Ridder, a former trustee of the Vancouver Museum. Through extraordinary effort, Elsje secured for it the adjacent Heritage Harbour. An accomplished lady, she was also a founder of the nearby Vancouver Academy of Music.
[b:f70262fddc]English Bay ?[/b:f70262fddc]This and nearby Spanish Banks commemorate the meeting of the English (under Captain Vancouver) and the Spanish (under Galiano and Vales) in this area in June 1792.
[b:f70262fddc]English Bluff ?[/b:f70262fddc]Immediately to the south lies Boundary Bluff, where the international boundary meets the Pacific. English Bluff got its name because it lay on the British side of the line.
[b:f70262fddc]Ewen Slough ?[/b:f70262fddc]After Alexander Ewen, an early cannery owner. A dour Scot, he was reputed never to have laughed.
[b:f70262fddc]Essondale ?[/b:f70262fddc]After Dr. Henry Esson Young, who was Provincial Secretary when the provincial mental hospital was established here. As Minister of Education from 1907 to 1916, Dr. Young was responsible for the founding of the University of British Columbia.
[b:f70262fddc]Fairview ?[/b:f70262fddc]Named by L.A. Hamilton, the C.P.R. land commissioner. An 1891 newspaper advertisement announced that "the clearing of the Land being nearly completed in that new and beautifully situated part of the VANCOUVER TOWNSITE known as FAIRVIEW", the C.P.R. was prepared to sell lots there.
[b:f70262fddc]False Creek ?[/b:f70262fddc]So named by Captain G.H. Richards, R.N. in the late 1850s, presumably because, despite its promising entrance, this small inlet soon ended in mud flats. (In England the word "creek" is used for any narrow indentation in a coast.)
[b:f70262fddc]Fannin Range ?[/b:f70262fddc]North of Vancouver. Named after John Fannin (1839-1904), the first curator of the Provincial Museum, Victoria.
[b:f70262fddc]Ferguson Point ?[/b:f70262fddc]Named after Alfred Graham Ferguson, the first chairman of the Vancouver Parks Board. (Since Ferguson was an alien, the swearing-in ceremony was tactfully omitted.) He died in San Francisco in 1903.
[b:f70262fddc]Fisherman's Cove ?[/b:f70262fddc]So named around 1888, when some Newfoundland fishermen and their families settled here.
[b:f70262fddc]Fort Langley ?[/b:f70262fddc]After Thomas Langley, for many years a director of the Hudson's Bay Company. He died in 1829. In October 1824 the H.B.C.'s Governor Simpson sent Chief Trader James McMillan on a reconnaissance of the lower Fraser Valley, with a view to establishing a post there. Later, in 1827, McMillan founded Fort Langley. The original fort was abandoned in 1837 and a new post (the present Fort Langley) was built several miles upstream, where the land was better for agriculture. The Crown Colony of British Columbia was proclaimed at Fort Langley in 1858, but the capital was soon moved to New Westminster. Fort Langley then went into a slow decline. The Hudson's Bay Company closed its store here in 1896 and the buildings of the old fort rotted away. Restoration of the fort began in 1957-58 as part of the celebration of British Columbia's centennial.
[b:f70262fddc]Fraser River ?[/b:f70262fddc]Named after Simon Fraser (1776-1862). See pages 31-32. Furry Creek ?After Oliver Furry, trapper and prospector, who in 1898 staked claims to rich copper deposits close to Britannia Beach. Gastown ?After the Hastings Mill was built on the south shore of Burrard Inlet in 1867, a colourful character names "Gassy Jack" Deighton arrived and opened a saloon there. The little settlement that grew up around Deighton's establishment became known as Gastown. for a time the name was accepted and appeared on the British Admiralty chart for the area. In 1870, however, the inhabitants renamed their community Granville, in honour of Earl Granville, the British Secretary for the Colonies.
[b:f70262fddc]Georgia Strait ?[/b:f70262fddc]of. This is the euphonious "Grand Canal de Nuestra Senora del Rosario la Marinera" of the Spanish explorers. Captain Vancouver wrote that it was on 4 June 1792, the same day that he proclaimed British sovereignty over the northwest Pacific coast beyond Cape Mendocino, that he "honoured" this "interior sea" with the name of the Gulf of Georgia. The honour lay in the fact that "Georgia" was derived from the name of His Majesty King George III. On 27 November 1858, Captain G.H. Richards, R.N., wrote to the Hydrographer of the Navy that he had modified the name to Georgia Strait, which he deemed more appropriate.
[b:f70262fddc]Gleneagles ?[/b:f70262fddc]The Gleneagles subdivision, formed around 1927, took the name of an adjacent golf course. The latter had been named after the Gleneagle links in Perthshire.
[b:f70262fddc]Goat Mountain ?[/b:f70262fddc]This mountain north of Vancouver was named in 1894 by hunters who had shot two mountain goats there. Golden Ears ?This name for the Peaks on Mount Blanshard (q.v.) was used as early as 1862 when Commander Mayne wrote of "the beautiful peaks known as Golden Ears."
[b:f70262fddc]Granville Island ?[/b:f70262fddc]After the British Secretary for the Colonies, the second Earl Granville appointed 10 December 1868.
[b:f70262fddc]Grouse Mountain ?[/b:f70262fddc]Received its name in 1894 when it was climbed by a party which included E.A. Cleveland, who in later years became Chief Commissioner of the Greater Vancouver Water District. They called it "Grouse Mountain" because of the blue grouse they had shot on it..
[b:f70262fddc]Guildford ?[/b:f70262fddc]When the directors of Grosvenor Laing, the original developers of the town centre here needed a name for it, they borrowed the name of Guildford in the county of Surrey in England, where their company had its headquarters.
[b:f70262fddc]Haney ?[/b:f70262fddc]After Thomas Haney (1841-1916), who settled here in 1876. The settlement was originally known as Haney's Landing, and later as Port Haney. With the increasing importance of roads, the centre of Haney moved away from the river and up to the highway.
[b:f70262fddc]Hazelmere ?[/b:f70262fddc]H.J. Thrift, a pioneer here, said he named the place not so much because he came from Hazelmere in England as because here, on his farm, he had both a thick growth of hazel bush and a small pond or "mere".
[b:f70262fddc]Hollyburn Mountain ?[/b:f70262fddc]West Vancouver's first white settler, John Lawson planted holly by the side of the "burn" (a Scottish word for a stream) flowing across his property. Putting the two words together, he coined "Hollyburn" as the name for his place.
[b:f70262fddc]Horseshoe Bay ?[/b:f70262fddc]So named because of its shape. Howe Sound ?Named by Captain Vancouver after Admiral the Rt. Hon. Richard Scrope, Earl Howe. He won his most famous victory in 1794, in the battle that has gone down in the annals of the Royal Navy as "the Glorious First of June". On that day Howe not only defeated a superior French fleet but captured seven of the ships in it. When he returned from this great victory, the royal family visited him aboard his flagship, H.M.S. Queen Charlotte, and the King presented him with a sword with a diamond-studded hilt valued at three thousand guineas.
[b:f70262fddc] Indian Arm ?[/b:f70262fddc]Explored by the Spanish in June 1792 who met a few Indians here. From them they learned that the Indians applied the name "Sasamat" (q.v.) to Indian Arm and area.
[b:f70262fddc]Ioco ?[/b:f70262fddc]From the first letters of the Imperial Oil Company which owns the large refinery here.
[b:f70262fddc]Iona Island ?[/b:f70262fddc]Called McMillan Island after a pioneer settler, Donald McMillan (1848-1901) until he himself renamed it Iona, after the island where St. Columba in 563 began christianizing the Scots.
[b:f70262fddc]Jericho ?[/b:f70262fddc]Takes its name from Jeremiah ("Jerry") Rogers (1818-79). As early as 1864 or 1865 he sent axemen from his base at Jerry's Cove (Jericho) to fell the giant trees that once grew on Point Grey.
[b:f70262fddc]Kerrisdale ?[/b:f70262fddc]In 1905 when the B.C. Electric built a station on its Steveston interurban line at what is now West 41st Avenue in Vancouver, the company's general manager called on a young Scottish couple named MacKinnon who had recently settled in the district and invited Mrs. MacKinnon to name the new station. Mrs. MacKinnon's choice, "Kerrysdale" after her home in Scotland, soon became Kerrisdale.
[b:f70262fddc]Kitsilano ?[/b:f70262fddc]Around 1905 when the C.P.R. was looking for a name for its new Vancouver subdivision, it approached a local ethnologist, Professor Charles Hill-Tout. He suggested "Kitsilano", an anglicized form of the name of a Squamish man who had lived in Stanley Park in the mid 1800s. The name is held today by a descendant.
[b:f70262fddc]Kwomais Point ?[/b:f70262fddc]This feature on Boundary Bay has a Halkomelem Indian name meaning "dog face".
[b:f70262fddc]Ladner ?[/b:f70262fddc]After William and Thomas Ladner, who took up land here in 1868. Born in Cornwall, the brothers came to B.C. in 1858, They prospected in the Cariboo, ran packtrains, and were merchants there before turning to farming.
[b:f70262fddc]Langara ?[/b:f70262fddc]This part of Vancouver preserves the name that the Spanish navigator Eliza gave to Point Grey in 1791. His Punta de Langara was named in honour of the Spanish admiral Don Juan de Langara.
[b:f70262fddc]Langley ?[/b:f70262fddc]Takes it name from nearby Fort Langley (q.v.) Lions, The ?These landmark mountains were known the Indians as "Chee-chee-yoh-hee", meaning "The Twins". The first white settlers called them "Sheba's Paps" [breasts]. Around 1890 Judge Gray, noting their resemblance to crouching lions, suggested that the entrance to Vancouver harbour be called "The Lions' Gate".
[b:f70262fddc]Locarno Park ?[/b:f70262fddc]Commemorates the pact, supposed to outlaw wars, signed in 1925 in Switzerland. Lonsdale ?This part of North Vancouver is named after Arthur Heywood-Lonsdale of Shavington Hall, Shropshire, who with a kinsman once owned the waterfront between Moodyville and the Capilano River.
[b:f70262fddc]Lost Lagoon ?[/b:f70262fddc]So named by the Indian poetess Pauline Johnson, who enjoyed canoeing here. The lagoon was "lost" in that, before the Stanley Park causeway was built in 1912, it drained into Coal Harbour at low tide, and so briefly ceased to exist.
[b:f70262fddc]Lulu Island ?[/b:f70262fddc]Gallantly named by colonel R.C. Moody of the Royal Engineers after a young actress, Lulu Sweet, who was a member of the first theatrical company to visit British Columbia. A Victorian newspaper said of her performance, "Miss Lulu's dancing was most chaste and beautiful. She was fairly smothered with bouquets and loudly encored."
[b:f70262fddc] Lynn Creek ?[/b:f70262fddc]After John Linn (note the correct spelling), one of the Royal Engineers who came to British Columbia in 1859. After the contingent was disbanded in 1863, the officers returned to England, but most of the sappers, including Linn, remained in B.C. He lived with his family at the mouth of this creek and died in 1876.
[b:f70262fddc]Maillardville ?[/b:f70262fddc]After Father Edmond Maillard, O.M.I., a native of St. Malo, Brittany. He was placed in charge of the Parish of Our Lady of Lourdes, founded in 1909 to minister to the needs of the French-Canadians brought out from Quebec to work in the Fraser Mills. He died in France in 1966, aged 86.
[b:f70262fddc]Marpole ?[/b:f70262fddc]Formerly called Eburne, but renamed Marpole in 1916. After Richard Marpole (1850- 1920) who, after early railway experience in England came out to Canada and worked under contract for the Canadian Pacific Railway. In 1886 he became superintendent of construction and operation for the C.P.R.'s Pacific Division.
[b:f70262fddc]Mary Hill ?[/b:f70262fddc]The Royal Engineers, who saw this hill as a good site for a citadel to protect New Westminster in the event of an American invasion, named it after the wife of their colonel, Richard Moody.
[b:f70262fddc]Milner ?[/b:f70262fddc]After Viscount Milner (1854-1925), British statesman and colonial administrator.
[b:f70262fddc]Minnekhada Park & Lodge ?[/b:f70262fddc]This Sioux Indian name meaning "water rattling by", was given by an American who farmed here before World War I. The "Scottish hunting lodge", built in 1934 by E.W. Hamber (Lieut.-Governor of B.C., 1936-40), passed to Clarence Wallace, (Lieut.- Governor 1950-55). The Greater Vancouver Regional District now owns both the park and the lodge.
[b:f70262fddc]Minoru Park ?[/b:f70262fddc]In about 1907 a racetrack named Minoru Park was opened here. Minoru was a famous racehorse owned by King Edward VII. Mitchell Island ?After the first man to farm on the island, Alex Mitchell.
[b:f70262fddc]Mount Blanshard ?[/b:f70262fddc]In 1859 Captain G.H. Richards, R.N., named this mountain behind Haney after Richard Blanshard, first governor of Vancouver Island (1850-51).
[b:f70262fddc]Mount Burke ?[/b:f70262fddc]Named by Captain G.H. Richards, R.N., about 1860, probably after Edmund Burke (1730-97), the famous statesman, orator and author.
[b:f70262fddc]Mount Fromme ?[/b:f70262fddc]After J.M. Fromme, "Father of Lynn Valley", who in 1899 built the first house in the valley. From 1924 to 1929 he was the reeve of North Vancouver District. He died, aged 83, in 1941.
[b:f70262fddc]Mount Garibaldi ?[/b:f70262fddc]After the Italian patriot and soldier Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-82). The name was conferred by Captain Richards, R.N., of H.M. surveying vessel Plumper about 1860. A story goes that the name owes something to there being an Italian sailor aboard the ship when the mountain was in view on Garibaldi's birthday. (Also Garibaldi Provincial Park.)
[b:f70262fddc]Mount Seymour ?[/b:f70262fddc]After Frederick Seymour, Governor of the Crown Colony of British Columbia. He died of acute alcoholism aboard H.M.S. Sparrowhawk at Bella Coola in 1869.
[b:f70262fddc]Mount Strachan ?[/b:f70262fddc]This mountain north of Hollyburn is named after Admiral Sir Richard Strachan (pronounced "Strawn"). In 1805 he won a brilliant victory over the French, capturing four of their ships of the line.
[b:f70262fddc]Musqueam ?[/b:f70262fddc]Simon Fraser, in his account of his journey to the mouth of the Fraser River, notes that "here we had the good fortune to escape the cruelty of the Musquiamme." Musqueam means "place of iris-like plants."
[b:f70262fddc]New Westminster ?[/b:f70262fddc]Fort Langley on the south bank of Fraser River being too vulnerable to American attack, Colonel Richard Moody advised Governor Douglas that the capital of the new colony of British Columbia should be moved to where New Westminster now stands. Moody favoured the name "Queenborough", but Douglas wanted "Queensborough". A request was then sent to London that the Queen herself choose the name for the new capital. Her Majesty chose "New Westminster". Aware of Queen Victoria's role, the people of New Westminster take pride in its unofficial name, "The Royal City".
[b:f70262fddc]Newton ?[/b:f70262fddc]After a pioneer New Westminster settler and harness-maker. His real name was Villeneuve but, being in an anglophone community, he changed it to Newton (which, like Villeneuve, means "new town").
[b:f70262fddc]Nicomekl River ?[/b:f70262fddc]Preserves the name of an Indian tribe that once lived in the area but was wiped out by small pox, probably about 1770. Noon Breakfast Point ?Captain Vancouver's Lieut. Peter Puget applied this name to a small point near the tip of Point Grey in 1792. It was adopted officially in 1981.
[b:f70262fddc]North Vancouver ?[/b:f70262fddc]About 1860 Philip Hicks started a sawmill here. Overwhelmed by debts he owed Prescott ("Sue") Moody, who had supplied him with logs, Hicks had to let Moody have the mill. The name "Moodyville" came into use for the small settlement that grew up around Moody's mill. In 1902 the name of Moodyville was changed to North Vancouver.
[b:f70262fddc]Oakridge ?[/b:f70262fddc]This name began with the construction in 1949 of the Oakridge Trolley Bus Garage at the corner of Oak Street and West 41st Avenue.
[b:f70262fddc]Ocean Park ?[/b:f70262fddc]This name was chosen about 1910 by the Rev. W.P. Goard for his Ocean Park Syndicate which was made up of prominent Lower Mainland Methodists wanting land for recreational and educational purposes.
[b:f70262fddc]Pacific Spirit Park ?[/b:f70262fddc]In December 1988 the provincial government transferred title to 763 hectares (1885 acres) of undeveloped land from the University Endowment Lands (q.v.) to the Greater Vancouver Regional District to form a park. A resulting competition to provide a name saw young Sherry Sakamoto winning with this one. According to Miss Sakamoto, she chose the name to signify "Gateway to the Pacific and spiritual ground to becoming one with nature."
[b:f70262fddc]Pitt River ?"[/b:f70262fddc]Pitt's River" is first mentioned in 1827, in the journal of James McMillan, the founder of Fort Langley. Apparently he named it in honour of William Pitt the Younger (1759- 1806), Prime Minister of Britain during much of the Napoleonic Wars. Point Atkinson ?Named by Captain Vancouver after an unidentified "particular friend". He may have been Thomas Atkinson, master of H.M.S. Victory during the Battle of Trafalgar.
[b:f70262fddc]Point Garry ?[/b:f70262fddc]At the S.W. tip of Lulu Island, this point is named after Nicholas Garry, deputy governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, 1822-35. The name was given by Captain Aemilius Simpson of the H.B.C.'s maritime service in 1827 when he brought the schooner Cadboro into the mouth of the Fraser, the first vessel to enter the river.
[b:f70262fddc]Point Grey ?[/b:f70262fddc]Named by Captain Vancouver "in compliment to my friend Captain George Grey of the Navy" who commanded H.M.S. Victory at the Battle of St. Vincent in 1797. the Spaniards, arriving a year before Vancouver, had named Point Grey "Punta de Langara". To the Indians it was "Ulksen", ("The Nose").
[b:f70262fddc]Point Roberts ?[/b:f70262fddc]Captain Vancouver named this after his "esteemed friend", Lieut. Henry Roberts. Roberts, a gifted cartographer, had served with him on Captain Cook's second and third voyages of discovery. Originally Roberts was designated to command the Royal Navy's 1791 expedition to explore our coast. Only when Roberts was no longer available did that historic commission pass to Captain Vancouver.
[b:f70262fddc]Port Coquitlam ?[/b:f70262fddc]See Coquitlam.
[b:f70262fddc]Port Guichon ?[/b:f70262fddc]After Laurent Guichon (1836-1902). French by birth, he took part in the Cariboo gold rush of 1861 and subsequently ranched in the interior. In 1883 he began farming on a large tract of land here in the Fraser delta. The "port", once a steamboat halt, is now silted in.
[b:f70262fddc]Port Hammond ?[/b:f70262fddc]After John Hammond, a farmer, and William Hammond, a civil engineer, young Englishmen who owned the townsite at the time of the building of the C.P.R.
[b:f70262fddc]Port Mann ?[/b:f70262fddc]After Donald Mann of the firm of Mackenzie and Mann, the builders of the Canadian Northern Railway. Port Mann was originally intended to be the road's Pacific terminus. Mann was knighted in 1911. His railway became part of the Canadian National Railway in 1923.
[b:f70262fddc]Port Moody ?[/b:f70262fddc]Named in 1860 in honour of Colonel Richard Clement Moody (1813-87), commanding officer of the "Columbia Detachment" of the Royal Engineers (6 officers and 158 N.C.O.s and men) that served in B.C. from 1858 to 1863. Colonel Moody returned to Britain when his detachment was disbanded, and subsequently rose to the rank of major-general.
[b:f70262fddc]Prospect Point ?[/b:f70262fddc]This Stanley Park viewpoint was known in the nineteenth century as "Observation Point". Porteau ?An adaptation of the French "porte d'eau", meaning "watergate". The name was suggested about 1908 by a Mr. Newberry of the Deeks Sand and Gravel Company.
[b:f70262fddc]Queensborough ?[/b:f70262fddc]This community has taken a name once proposed for New Westminster. (q.v.) Reifel Island ?This island, formerly known as Smoky Tom Island, was purchased in 1929 by George C. Reifel. When the Canadian Wildlife Service bought much of the island in 1972, George H. Reifel donated the rest of the island to form the Reifel Bird Sanctuary.
[b:f70262fddc]Richmond ?[/b:f70262fddc]Hugh McRoberts, who had come to B.C. from Australia, established Richmond Farm here in 1861. The farm's name was chosen by one of McRoberts' daughters, who selected the name of a favourite place in Australia.
[b:f70262fddc]Sapperton ?[/b:f70262fddc]The Royal Engineers (traditionally called "sappers") who were sent out to British Columbia in 1858-59 had their original camp beside the townsite of New Westminster. Colonel Moody coined the name "Sapperton" for this base. When members of the corps settled here, they kept the name of Sapperton for their village.
[b:f70262fddc]Sasamat Lake ?[/b:f70262fddc]The Spanish explorers noted that "Sasamat" was the Indian name for the Indian Arm area. It actually was the name of an early Indian village at the mouth of the Seymour River, and can be translated as "lazy people".
[b:f70262fddc]Semiahmoo Bay ?[/b:f70262fddc]Preserves the name of a sub-group of the Straits Salish Indians. Meaning not known.
[b:f70262fddc]Shaughnessy ?[/b:f70262fddc]The C.P.R. named this sub-division after Thomas George Shaughnessy (1853- 1923), an American railroader recruited in 1882 over a glass of Milwaukee beer as general purchasing agent for the C.P.R. Shaughnessy was president of the C.P.R. from 1898 to 1918, he was knighted in 1901 and became Lord Shaughnessy in 1916.
[b:f70262fddc]Siwash Rock ?[/b:f70262fddc]The original Squamish Indian name for this landmark means "standing up". There is a native legend about how three supernatural brothers, "Transformers", came this way in a canoe and changed a bather into the rock. In early years whitemen called this "Ninepins Rock". Its present name, "Siwash", is a Chinook jargon word derived from the French "sauvage" applied to any native Indian.
[b:f70262fddc]Spanish Banks ?[/b:f70262fddc]This name commemorates Captain Vancouver's meeting, on 22 June 1792, with two Spanish ships, the brig Sutil commanded by Galiano and the schooner Mexicana commanded by Valdes. Actually, he found the Spaniards riding at anchor a little south and west of Point Grey.
[b:f70262fddc]Squamish ?[/b:f70262fddc]Takes its name from the local Indian tribe. No meaning is known for "Squamish". Stanley Park ?Well before there was any Vancouver this area, then called Coal Peninsula (see Coal Harbour), was set aside as a military reservation for fortifications that could command the entrance to Burrard Inlet. In 1886 the Vancouver city council asked the federal government for a lease on the land. This was granted for 99 years at a fee of $1.00 a year, an arrangement renewed in 1907. In October 1889 Lord Stanley of Preston, Governor General of Canada, dedicated the new park which took his name.
[b:f70262fddc]Steveston ?[/b:f70262fddc]In 1887 Manoah Steves, a New Brunswicker, settled on Lulu Island. In 1889 W.H. Steves, his eldest son, laid out part of the farm in townlots. It was first planned to name the village simply "Steves", but this soon became the more formal "Steveston".
[b:f70262fddc]Strathcona ?[/b:f70262fddc]This East Vancouver community bears the name of Donald Alexander Smith, Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal (1820-1914), who amassed a fortune through his connections with the Hudson's Bay Company and the Canadian Pacific Railway.
[b:f70262fddc] Sturgeon Park ?[/b:f70262fddc]So named by Captain Vancouver "in consequence of our having purchased of the natives some excellent fish of that kind.
[b:f70262fddc]" Surrey ?"[/b:f70262fddc]The Corporation of Surrey" was created by Letters Patent issued on 10 November, 1879. The new municipality probably owed its name to the fact that it lies south across the Fraser from New Westminster, just as in England the County of Surrey lies south across the Thames from Westminster. Tilbury Island ?After Tilbury, England, where a fort once stood on the Thames downstream from London.
[b:f70262fddc]Tsawwassen ?[/b:f70262fddc]Preserves the name of the local Indian band. The Halkomelem word means "facing seaward".
[b:f70262fddc]Tynehead ?[/b:f70262fddc]Originally "Tinehead", since the head of the Serpentine River is here, but converted into Tynehead by analogy with the River Tyne in the north of England. University Endowment Lands ?The University Endowment Act of 1907 provided for some two million acres of provincial lands to be set aside to produce revenue for the new University of British Columbia. The scheme was never really implemented. The present tiny U.E.L. residential district in Point Grey is a vestige of the plan, which never contributed to the university's finances.
[b:f70262fddc]Vancouver ?[/b:f70262fddc]Named after Captain George Vancouver of the Royal Navy who, from April 1792 until late, 1794, with H.M.S. Discovery and the tender Chatham made his historic survey of the mainland coast of the Pacific Northwest. When, in 1884, the C.P.R. decided to have its Pacific terminus at Coal Harbour and not at Port Moody, W.C. Van Horne, the railroad's general manager, refused to accept either Granville, the new name of Gastown, or Liverpool, the name mooted for what is now the West End. Said Van Horne, "...this eventually is destined to be a great city in Canada. We must see that it has a name that will designate its place on the map of Canada. Vancouver it shall be, if I have the ultimate decision." And Vancouver it became, a distinctive name, but confusing to those who quite logically expect the City of Vancouver to be situated on Vancouver Island.
[b:f70262fddc]Westham Island ?[/b:f70262fddc]Named by Harry Trim, an Englishman from Westham in Sussex. West Vancouver ?In 1912 the western part of North Vancouver broke away to form a new municipality, West Vancouver, with a population of 700. Earlier the name had been used unofficially by the West Vancouver Transportation Company, formed by John Lawson, the "father of West Vancouver" to provide a ferry service with Vancouver.
[b:f70262fddc]Whalley ?[/b:f70262fddc]After Arthur Whalley, who settled here with his family in 1925. the earlier name of Whalley's Corner, shortened to Whalley, was adopted by the community in 1948. Whalley post office became North Surrey in 1966 and Surrey in 1969.
[b:f70262fddc]Whistler ?[/b:f70262fddc]Takes its name from Whistler Mountain (formerly London Mountain). Whistler Mountain is so named because of the numerous whistlers (marmots) living on its slopes. Whistler post office was opened in 1976.
[b:f70262fddc]White Rock ?[/b:f70262fddc]Named for a large white rock on the beach here. An Indian legend has it that the rock was hurled across Georgia Strait by a young chief who had promised his beloved to make their home where the white rock landed.
[b:f70262fddc]Whytecliff ?[/b:f70262fddc]An Admiralty survey named the promontory here White Cliff Point, but in 1914 a real estate developer, Colonel Albert Whyte, persuaded the Pacific Great Eastern Railway (now the B.C. Rail) to name its station here not White Cliff but Whytecliff.
[b:f70262fddc]Willingdon Heights ?[/b:f70262fddc]After the Marquis of Willingdon, (1866-1941), Governor-General of Canada 1926-31.
[b:f70262fddc]Woodward's Landing ?[/b:f70262fddc]After Nathaniel Woodward, who settled here with his son Daniel in 1874.
[b:f70262fddc]Yennadon ?[/b:f70262fddc]E.W. Prowse named this settlement near Haney after his grandfather's former home, Yennadon Manor, a beautiful place on Dartmoor in England.
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