| 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: | SW side of West Vancouver District Municipality, New Westminster Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°20'59"N, 123°15'04"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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Caulfeild (Post Office) adopted 7 December 1937 on 92G/6, as labelled on BC map 2B, 1914. Form of name changed to Caulfeild (Settlement) 3 April 1959 on 92G; since changed to Caulfeild (Community). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Post Office was opened 1 June 1920; closed 28 March 1955. At the time of closing, the Post Office was situated on SE 1/4 Block 2, Lot 811. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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After Francis William Caulfeild, to whom entirely is due its present fine surroundings. Caulfeild bought land here in 1899 and laid out part as a model village; first lots sold in 1909. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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This tract of land was first pre-empted by a Scandinavian named Nils Frolander, who after obtaining a Crown Grant sold the property to Mr. John Balfour Kerr. In the 1890's it was again sold to Mr. Francis W. Caulfeild, an Englishman travelling through Canada. He makes his home in England but frequently visits his property on Burrard Inlet. With great generosity he has given much of his land to the municipality for public parks. (from an article appearing in the Sunday Province, 26 July 1925) Source: Nelson, Denys; Place Names of the Delta of the Fraser River; 1927, unpublished manuscript held in the Provincial Archives |
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....a most attractive English gentleman in the old tradition. In 1899, won by the beauty of the wild flowers, woods and beaches of the area, he bought the land between Cypress Creek and Point Atkinson. Himself a lover of beautiful English villages, he sought to create one here. Rejecting the uncompromising grid universally imposed on North American settlements, he laid out winding streets which followed the natural contours of the wooded slopes. He made a public park of the strip of land on the waterfront. Caulfeild died in 1934, aged about ninety. 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 |