| 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: | Not official |
| Other Names: | Horseshoe BayOfficial |
| Relative Location: | W side of West Vancouver, New Westminster Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°21'59"N, 123°16'04"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 (Post Office) adopted 7 December 1937 on 92G/6. Form of name changed to Whytecliffe (Post Office & Station) 12 December 1939 on 92SE. Name changed to Horseshoe Bay (Settlement & Post Office) 28 July 1945 on Chart 3579. 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. 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 Expedition that charted Howe Sound gave the name "White Cliff Point" to the tip of the peninsula south of Horseshoe Bay, on account of the white appearance of the weathered cliffs just there. That name has been printed for years on the Admiralty charts of Howe Sound. When a certain Colonel Albert Whyte bought a lot of land around Horseshoe Bay he went after immortality, called the name of his property "Whytecliff" and persuaded the PGE to mis-spell the station name that way. (letter from Mr. Porter, per Mr. George Brealley, both of West Vancouver, 15 January 1927)." Source: Nelson, Denys; Place Names of the Delta of the Fraser River; 1927, unpublished manuscript held in the Provincial Archives |