Adopted in the 10th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 30 June 1911, as labelled on J.D. Pemberton's 1855 map "South Eastern Districts of Vancouver Island" prepared for the Hudson's Bay Company. Re-approved 11 June 1934 on National Defence sheets Metchosin and Sooke (Ottawa file OBF 1449-1).

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

"After Captain Edward E. Langford (1809-1895), once of the 73rd Regiment and a Sussex landowner. Captain Langford, his wife, and five good-looking daughters arrived in Victoria in May 1851, being the first English family to emigrate to the colony. Captain Langford had been hired as manager of the Esquimalt farm operated by the Hudson's Bay Company's subsidiary, the Puget Sound Agricultural Company. Although Captain Langford did not entirely neglect his duties around the farm, he was much more interested in being a genial country squire and keeping open house for the young officers from the Royal Navy who would make eligible husbands for his girls. He returned to England in 1861."

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