| 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: | W side of entrance to Indian Arm, in North Vancouver, New Westminster Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°18'55"N, 122°57'12"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92G/7 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Dollarton (Post Office) adopted 6 February 1948 on C.3434, as labelled on BC map 5B, 1929. Form of name changed to Dollarton (community) 19 July 1979 on 92G/7, as recommended by District of North Vancouver planning department. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Roslyn (settlement) labelled in this location on BC map 2B, 1914. Dollarton Post Office was opened 17 July 1918 situated in Lot 471. "Dollarton (post office and lumber settlement)" identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer. Dollarton Post Office amalgamated as a sub-office within Vancouver Post Office 17 October 1960. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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A lumbermill town belonging to the Dollar Company, headed by Captain Robert Dollar (1844 - ). Captain Dollar also founded the Dollar Steamship Company, a major enterprise in its day, and was the inspiration for the "Cappy Ricks" character in the stories by Peter B. Kyne. Dollarville, Michigan, is another town which owes its name and existence to the energy of the captain. Source: Nelson, Denys; Place Names of the Delta of the Fraser River; 1927, unpublished manuscript held in the Provincial Archives |
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"...Captain Robert Dollar (1844 - 1932), American shipping magnate, one of whose companies established a large sawmill here in 1919..." Source: Provincial Archives' Place Names File (the "Harvey File") compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions |