Ladner (Town and Post Office) adopted in the 1930 BC Gazetteer, as labelled on BC map 2B, 1914; confirmed 11 February 1936 on 92G/3. Form of name changed to the dual name "Ladner (Delta Post Office) (Settlement)" 22 August 1969 on 92G/3a. Ladner (Settlement) subsequently changed to Ladner (Community). Dual name dismantled into its' component parts July 1993 by Ottawa. Both names to be labelled on provincial maps.

Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office

Ladner's Landing Post Office opened 1 March 1875, located at the mouth of Cohilukthan Slough. Name changed to Ladner Post Office 1 July 1895 and subsequently relocated 2-3 blocks upland. Post office renamed Delta Post Office 1 March 1969, located within the settlement of Ladner. [note that an earlier "Delta Post Office" had been opened 1 March 1897, located at the junction of Semiamo and Matheson Roads; closed 30 June 1901; re-opened 1 March 1903; closed 31 December 1906; re-opened 1 April 1907; closed for the final time 30 June 1913.]

Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office

After William H. Ladner, who in 1867 - one year before any other settlers arrived - pre-empted the land on which the town now stands. (as published in the Vancouver Sun 5 May 1924, quoting William Ladner's son, Paul, and apparently to correct the Vancouver Sun's 13 April 1924 article wherein the late Thomas E. Ladner is identified as the founder of the town).

Source: Nelson, Denys; Place Names of the Delta of the Fraser River; 1927, unpublished manuscript held in the Provincial Archives

William Henry Ladner, born in Cornwall, England, 28 November 1826; son of Edward and Sarah Ellis Ladner, both of Cornwall. Father died in Wisconsin in 1851. William Ladner arrived at Victoria 15 May 1858. There were 6 men in the party and at Victoria they built skiffs in which to navigate the Fraser River. The party secured transportation as far as Point Roberts for which they paid $50, and from there they proceeded in their skiffs to Fort Langlay, arriving May 30. By taking that route they avoided the customs duty of 10% on all imported goods, levied at the mouth of the Fraser River, and also a charge of $5 for each mining licence. 1 June 1858 they left Langley for Hope. [Ladner] did some mining and trading, was appointed Customs Agent and Government Officer, being the first constable on the mainland of the Province. In 1859 he started a pack train to the interior, continuing until 1865. In 1868 (after a financial loss in the Big Bend district) he settled [at Ladner's Landing] where he pre-empted 160 acres and later bought 480 acres more. Represented New Westminster from 1886 to 1890. Reeve of the Delta, Justice of the Peace, and Police Magistrate. In 1865 he married Mary A. Booth of Iowa, and they had 4 children; she died in 1879. Ladner married again in 1880, to Mrs. McLellan of Clinton.

Source: Nelson, Denys; Place Names of the Delta of the Fraser River; 1927, unpublished manuscript held in the Provincial Archives

After the first white settlers, William H. Ladner and Thomas E. Ladner, who took up land here in 1868. Born in Cornwall, England, the Ladner brothers came to British Columbia in 1858. They prospected and mined in the Cariboo and engaged in storekeeping and running pack trains before marrying in 1865 two sisters, Mary and Edney Booth, and turning to agriculture.

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