| Feature Type: | Community - An unincorporated populated place, generally with a population of 50 or more, and having a recognized central area that might contain a post office, store and/or community hall, etc, intended for the use of the general public in the region. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | E side of Boundary Bay just NW of White Rock (municipality), New Westminster Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°03'05"N, 122°53'00"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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Crescent (Post Office & Station) adopted 11 February 1936, as labelled on BC map 2B, 1914. Name changed to Crescent Beach (Post Office & Station) 23 December 1951 on 92G/2. Form of name subsequently changed to Crescent Beach (village), then changed to Crescent Beach (community) 24 November 1980 on 92G/2. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Crescent Lodge Post Office was opened 1 May 1907. Renamed Crescent Post Office 1 April 1909. Renamed Crescent Beach Post Office 23 December 1951 (by that time, located in SE 1/4 Sec 19 Tp 1, W6M); post office closed 30 September 1959. Meanwhile, GNR changed their station name from Crescent to Crescent Beach in April or May 1952; station not identified in GNR and BNR timetables after October 1969. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"So-named by land owners and subdividers from of the crescent shape of Mud Bay, because they disliked the name Blackies Spit which then applied to the area." Source: Provincial Archives of BC "Place Names File" compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions |