| Feature Type: | Locality - A named place or area, generally with a scattered population of 50 or less. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | S side of Alouette River in Maple Ridge (municipality), New Westminster Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°13'59"N, 122°35'04"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92G/2 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Yennadon (settlement) adopted 4 July 1957 on 92G/SE, as lbelled on BC map 2B, 1914. Form of name changed to Yennadon (locality) 29 November 1984 on Ottawa file 203-2. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Yennadon Post Office was opened 1 September 1911, situated on Lot 1, NE 1/4 Sec 29, Tp 12, W6M; closed 31 August 1923. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"Named by E.W. Prosse after the former home of his grandfather, Yennadon Manor, a beautiful place on Dartmoor in England. (information from Mrs. Thomas Spinks, Port Haney, February 1927)." Source: Nelson, Denys; Place Names of the Delta of the Fraser River; 1927, unpublished manuscript held in the Provincial Archives |