Fleetwood Metro Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia

Urban Community - A separately named area within the limits of an incorporated municipality In Surrey, NW of Cloverdale, New Westminster Land District

Mapped Location

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

 

Information

General information on Fleetwood

  • Feature Type: Place

 

Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for Fleetwood

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

Name Description
Fleetwood Official

 

Origin Notes and History of Fleetwood

References to Fleetwood that document the origin of its place name

Fleetwood (Community) adopted 10 March 1975 as a long-established name. Form of name changed to Fleetwood (Urban Community) 16 November 1996 - this is now incorporated within Surrey municipal boundary.

B.C. Geographical Names in Province of British Columbia
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Fleetwood (Community Association) was incorporated in 1923; Edith Francis, an area resident, named Fleetwood after her brother Arthur Thomas Fleetwood who died of wounds received in battle in WWI (8 September 1917)... (See Fleetwood Community Association website.)

B.C. Geographical Names in Province of British Columbia
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Fleetwood (Community Association) was incorporated in 1923, according to Surrey historian; an area resident named Fleetwood was killed in WWI .... no Post Office or Railway Station established here; not identified in Nelson's "Place Names of the Delta of the Fraser River", 1927; not identified on Plans of New Westminster District, 1913, nor on BC Lands' map 2B, 1914, nor on 92G/2, 1938 & 1949; Fleetwood (settlement) not identified in 1949 Directory; Fleetwood School first identified on a 1952 map provided by Surrey Board of School Trustees (file F.1.34 pt.1)

B.C. Geographical Names in Province of British Columbia
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Metro Vancouver Regional District

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Last updated: 2023-09-26