| Feature Type: | Urban Community - A separately named area within the limits of an incorporated municipality |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | In Surrey Municipality, New Westminster Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°07'59"N, 122°51'04"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92G/2 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Newton Station (Post Office) and Newton (Railway Station) were adopted 2 February 1936 on 92G/2, as labelled on BC map 2B, 1914. Re-submitted and passed as Newton (Post Office and Station) 15 September 1966 on 92G/SE. Form of name changed to Newton (Railway Point) 24 November 1980 on 92G/2. Form of name changed to Newton (Urban Community) 16 November 1995. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Newton Station Post Office opened 1 April 1914. Renamed Newton Post Office 6 June 1960 Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"...after Elias John Newton. " Source: Nelson, Denys; Place Names of the Delta of the Fraser River; 1927, unpublished manuscript held in the Provincial Archives |
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"After E.J. Villeneuf, pioneer settler, saddler and harness maker; finding his neighbours had difficulty with his name, Villeneuf (New Town) obligingly changed it to Newton." Source: Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V; 1001 British Columbia Place Names; Discovery Press, Vancouver 1969, 1970, 1973. |