| Feature Type: | Post Office - A Canada Post designation; the post office name may or may not be the same as the name of the place where it is located. |
| Status: | Not official |
| Relative Location: | N of Saxe Point, Victoria Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 48°25'59"N, 123°25'04"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92B/6 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 29 December 1945 on C.3413; rescinded 24 November 1980.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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Beaumont Post Office opened 1 April 1900, situated on the SE corner of Esquimalt Road and Constance Avenue (see cancellation mark & postmaster's 1913 sketch on PO card). Amalgamated as a sub-office within Victoria Post Office 1 January 1917. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Possibly named after Rear Admiral Lewis Anthony Beaumont ( - 1922), appointed to command the Pacific Station 20 March 1899; remained at Esquimalt Naval Base until October or November 1900. Later appointed KCMG, then GCB at the Coronation of King George V, 1911. (Longstaff, Esquimalt Naval Base: A History of Its Work and Defences, 1941) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |