Bevan (Post Office) adopted March 1923, as identified in 1912 BC Mines Report and labelled on BC map 2C, 1919. Form of name changed to Bevan (settlement) 7 October 1948; further changed to Bevan (locality) 15 April 1981 on 92F/11. According to E.P. Creech the locality has been abandoned.

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Bevan Post Office was opened 15 September 1913; closed 31 August 1957.

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Bevan was a foreman with the Comox Logging Company; no further explanation in BC records.

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Dunsmuir opened the No. 7 mine here in 1902, and a spur was built linking the mining camp with the rail line at Cumberland; Canadian Collieries bought out Dunsmuir in 1911 and laid out a townsite. The following year there were 100+ homes, a large store and a hotel; once the post office was opened the settlement lost its identity as No. 7 and became known as Bevan. When No. 7 mine closed in 1921 many families left, and 50 of the company houses were moved to Cumberland. No. 8 mine, just 3 km away at Puntledge, was reopened in 1936 and the Bevan townsite prospered until 1953, when the mine was permanently closed and all houses sold & removed. Post Office closed in 1957. The hotel remained open and was eventually refurbished as an up-scale tourist retreat; converted to a group home for mentally-challenged adults in 1968; closed c1980. See Times-Colonist, Islander magazine, 13 April 1981.

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