| Feature Type: | Cove (2) - Water area in a small indentation of the shoreline of a sea, lake or river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | SW side of Indian Arm, Burrard Inlet, in North Vancouver, New Westminster Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°19'43"N, 122°56'31"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92G/7 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 6 February 1948 on C3434, as labelled on British Admiralty Chart #1922, 1860 et seq, and on BC map 2B, 1914, and as identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"Deep Cove is an old name probably given on account of the depth of the water out in the bay. In some places soundings have not been obtained. The water shoals gradually into the middle of the bay and is therefore quite safe, while the depth in the middle is very great." (from Mrs. V.S. Corfield, Deep Cove Tea Rooms) Source: Nelson, Denys; Place Names of the Delta of the Fraser River; 1927, unpublished manuscript held in the Provincial Archives |
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Named, obviously from its form, by Captain G.H. Richards, British Admiralty, 1859-60. Source: Provincial Archives' Place Names File (the "Harvey File") compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions |