| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows S into Burrad Inlet, NE of Point Atkinson in West Vancouver, New Westminster Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°20'19"N, 123°14'28"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92G/6 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 8 January 1929 on 92G/6; an established local name. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named by Point Atkinson lighthouse keeper Walter Erwin and his wife Jane; while exploring the area soon after assuming the job in 1879, he and his wife found a particularly compelling grove of cypress trees along this creek. Source: Provincial Archives of BC "Place Names File" compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions |
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Named by Walter Erwin, Point Atkinson lighthouse keeper 1879, and early landowner here (Crown Grant, DC 582, 6 August 1891); so-named because cypress logs put into the creek to float down to Burrard Inlet were badly broken up by the rocks. Source: Provincial Archives of BC "Place Names File" compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions |