Brighouse Metro Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia

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. In Richmond, SE of Middle Arm Fraser River, New Westminster Land District

Mapped Location

Brighouse: The mapped location is an approximation and should not be used for navigation or wayfinding.

 

Information

General information on Brighouse

  • Feature Type: Place

 

Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for Brighouse

A brief list of names that this geographic feature has been named

Name Description
Brighouse Official

 

Origin Notes and History of Brighouse

References to Brighouse that document the origin of its place name

Brighouse (Post Office & Railway Station) adopted 11 February 1936, "...on CPR, Lulu Island" as labelled on BC map 2B, 1914 et seq. Form of name changed to Brighouse (Station) 3 April 1959 on 92G, then to Brighouse (Community) 15 January 1982.

B.C. Geographical Names in Province of British Columbia
BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office  |  Province of British Columbia

After Sam Brighouse, who had acquired property on Lulu Island in 1862. He and his cousin, John Morton, had travelled from Yorkshire in 1862, meeting William Hailstone en route. They had a shack at the corner of Seton and Burrard Streets, close to where the Blue Ribbon Tea Company building stands now. Morton's estate included the well-known 'triangle' at English Bay, and Brighouse owned extensive acreage on Lulu Island. Brighouse was one of a group of approximately 30 Lulu Islander property owners who, in 1879, petitioned for a charter for the Municipality of Richmond. He returned to England in 1911, and died there 31 July 1913, leaving no family. His nephew, Michael Williams, inherited the Lulu Island property and took the name Brighouse, in accordance with the terms of the will. (Information provided to Denys Nelson, c1925, by F.C. Morton, nephew of John Morton).

B.C. Geographical Names in Province of British Columbia
Nelson, Denys; Place Names of the Delta of the Fraser River; 1927, unpublished manuscript held in the Provincial Archives  |  Province of British Columbia

Born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, in 1836. Brighouse and his cousin John Morton came to British Columbia in 1862 and spent a brief time in the Cariboo goldfields. Later in the same year, together with William Hailstone, they purchased 550 acres of land, that portion of present-day Vancouver lying between Burrard Street and Stanley Park.

B.C. Geographical Names in Province of British Columbia
Canadian Geographical Names Database, Ottawa  |  Province of British Columbia

Brighouse Post Office was opened 1 December 1923, Mrs. Elizabeth M. Stirton, postmistress; amalgamated as a sub-office of Vancouver Post Office 1 April 1947; closed 18 June 1956, and Richmond Post Office opened in place thereof.

B.C. Geographical Names in Province of British Columbia
BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office  |  Province of British Columbia

 

Metro Vancouver Regional District

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Last updated: 2023-09-25