| 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 of Horseshoe Bay, in West Vancouver, New Westminster Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°21'59"N, 123°17'04"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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Whytecliff (community) adopted 15 July 1983 on 92G/6. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Whytecliff Post Office was opened 1 June 1920. Renamed Horsehoe Bay Post Office 9 April 1942, however residents continued to identify their settlement as Whytecliff. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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The Admiralty survey of Howe Sound, taking note of the white rock of the promontory here, named it "White Cliff Point". In 1909 Sir Charles Tupper and Colonel Albert Whyte of the West Shore and Northern Land Company Limited opened their White Cliff City townsite. In 1914 Colonel Whyte used his influence with the British Columbia Railway to have the company name its station here not "White Cliff" but "Whytecliff". Source: Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V; 1001 British Columbia Place Names; Discovery Press, Vancouver 1969, 1970, 1973. |