Cloverdale Metro Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia

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

Mapped Location

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

 

Information

General information on Cloverdale

  • Feature Type: Place

 

Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for Cloverdale

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

Name Description
Cloverdale Official

 

Origin Notes and History of Cloverdale

References to Cloverdale that document the origin of its place name

Cloverdale (Post Office & Station) adopted in the 1930 BC Gazetteer. Form of name changed to Cloverdale (Post Office) 11 February 1936 on 92 G/2. Form of name changed to Cloverdale (community) 15 December 1982 on 92 G/2; changed to Cloverdale (Urban Community) 16 November 1995 - this is now incorporated within Surrey municipal boundary.

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

Cloverdale Station (GNR) was opened c1891. Cloverdale Post Office was opened May 1892, J. McMillan postmaster, located about 1 mile west of Clover Valley Post Office, which had opened in 1883.

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

"Cloverdale was so named by the railway engineers when the NW & SRR was constructed." (H.T. Thrift, 11 February 1927)

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Nelson, Denys; Place Names of the Delta of the Fraser River; 1927, unpublished manuscript held in the Provincial Archives  |  Province of British Columbia

From Clover Valley, the name given the district by William Shannon (1843-1928), early settler. "A few days after arriving in the valley in the year 1875, I had occasion to write a letter and was in doubt as to how to head it. I looked out at the wild clover which grew luxuriantly everywhere and at once thought that the best and most appropriate name was 'Clover Valley'. A short time after that, I had the honour of naming the post office, as I was the means of obtaining that facility from the government, as well as the post offices of Mud Bay and Langley Prairie. My brother and I purchased 960 acres of land from the government and I also took up a homestead. My nephews, the Shannon brothers, now own the land I purchased from the government." [Shannon was a pioneer in various parts of BC as a trader, gold miner, farmer, lumberman and Vancouver real estate agent.]

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

 

Metro Vancouver Regional District

Political Boundaries

Last updated: 2023-09-26