| Language of origin | Gaelic language |
| 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: | N side of Burrad Inlet in West Vancouver, between Hollyburn and Altamont, New Westminster Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°20'11"N, 123°11'07"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92G/6 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Dundarave (Post Office) adopted 7 December 1937on 92G/6. Form of name changed to Dundarave (community) 24 November 1980. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"Named after the old home of the McNaughton family in Scotland, Mr. McNaughton being formerly a resident on the north shore of Burrard Inlet... Dundarave [Castle] was reached by a two-oared boat. The word is derived from the Gaelic meaning "the two oars" and the letter A is pronounced as in 'have'." Source: Nelson, Denys; Place Names of the Delta of the Fraser River; 1927, unpublished manuscript held in the Provincial Archives |
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This area of West Vancouver was named by early resident Russell Elliot Macnaghten (1860-1918) after Dundarave Castle, Loch Fyne, Scotland, ancestral home of the clan Macnaghten (various spellings). Macnaghten was a professor of classics at McGill University College, Vancouver, and later at University of British Columbia, who with others had purchased and subdivided land here in 1909. Dundarave Castle was reached by rowboat and the name is derived from the Gaelic meaning "the two oars." [ Dun means hill.] Source: Provincial Archives' Place Names File (the "Harvey File") compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions |