18th Report. [18th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1924.]

Source: Canadian Geographical Names Database, Ottawa

Named after Sapper John Linn who settled on the creek. A survey made by J.B. Launders in 1869 showed Lynn Creek as "Freds Creek" and the position of the house occupied by J. Linn. John Linn was discharged with a deferred pension in 1863. There are two letters in the Archives, 1805 and 1871, with his signature. Unfortunately the date of the change of name from Freds Creek to Lynn Creek is unknown; from 1877 to 1900 the creek appeared on maps without a name, then was labelled Lynn Creek. The spelling is probably a draughtsman's error, based on the name of an old play "East Lynn" which would be fairly fresh in memory about 1900. (1925 note by G. Aitkens, BC Chief Geographer)

Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office.

Named after John Linn, early settler at the mouth of the creek. Linn was a member of the famous detachment of Royal Engineers that came round Cape Horn to British Columbia in 1859 following the Fraser River gold rush. Born at Corstorphine, Edinburgh, on July 12, 1821, he joined the Army in 1846, coming to Halifax two years later. There he was stationed for nine years and married Mary Robertson in 1857. He then returned to England with his bride before sailing with her on the six months' voyage to British Columbia. A mason by trade, Linn had his part in the construction of roads and buildings, preservation of law and order, and other diversified labours which the Royal Engineers did so well in the newly established colony. When the force was disbanded in 1863 he had served over seventeen years, character "very good." He elected to remain rather than return to England. In 1869 he moved his family from the barracks at New Westminster (Sapperton - where the penitentiary now stands) to a cottage he build on the north shore of Burrard Inlet just east of what is now Lynn Creek. He obtained a free grant of the land, Lot 204, under the government's plan of rewarding soldier settlers. (c1945 article written by A.G. Harvey; BC Archives, MS1925, Box 26, File 5)

Source: Provincial Archives' Place Names File (the "Harvey File") compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions