| 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 City of Surrey, New Westminster Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°10'44"N, 122°52'04"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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Whalley (Post Office), NOT "Whalleys Corner (Post Office)" was adopted 5 August 1948 on 92G/2. Form of name changed to Whalley (community) 22 May 1981 on 92G/2. Form of name changed to Whalley (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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After Arthur Whalley, who settled here with his family in 1925. When the Pacific Stages bus line established a stop at the intersection of Ferguson and Bergstrom Roads, it was called 'Whalley's Corner'". Source: Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V; 1001 British Columbia Place Names; Discovery Press, Vancouver 1969, 1970, 1973. |
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Also known as "North Surrey", according to the Surrey (City) website. Source: included with note |