Adopted 6 November 1934 on National Defence sheet 415d, as labelled on J.D. Pemberton's 1855 map for the Hudson's Bay Company "South Eastern Districts of Vancouver Island" and on subsequent Dept of Lands & Works maps, 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

Likely after a Mr. Newton, draughtsman for J.D. Pemberton, Surveyor-General: "... I have now two assistants, Mr. Pearse and Mr. Newton... Mr. Newton is not so well qualified to be of service in outside work, but his artistic talents and his diligence in applying them render him a decided acquisition..." (6 February 1854 letter from Pemberton to Hudson's Bay Company, London; HBC Archives Ref A/6, 120 Folio___ )

Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office

After W.E. Newton, a farmer who arrived in Victoria in 1851 and married Emmeline, daughter of John Tod (see Tod Inlet). [Given Pemberton's assessment, this is not likely the same person as Newton the draughtsman.]

Source: Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V; British Columbia Place Names; Sono Nis Press, Victoria 1986 /or University of British Columbia Press 1997

The traditional name Láu,wel,new (ȽÁUˌWELṈEW̱) means "place of escape." (Saltwater People, as told by Dave Elliott, Sr; a resource book for Saanich Native Studies program, School District 63, 1990, p.22.) See also Saanich/Saanich Peninsula.

Source: included with note

Lau Wel New (ȽÁUˌWELṈEW̱), as Mount Newton is known to the First Nations of the Saanich Peninsula, was the high point of land that enabled them to survive the Great Flood. Here legend has it that the Saanich ancestors were able to anchor their canoe until the floodwaters subsided using a giant cedar rope. Lau Wel New was the first land available as the floodwaters receded. ("About This Park," John Dean Provincial Park webpage of the BC Parks website.)

Source: included with note