Barnston Island 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 Fraser River, just below mouth of Pitt River, New Westminster Land District

Mapped Location

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

 

Information

General information on Barnston Island

  • Feature Type: Place

 

Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for Barnston Island

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

Name Description
Barnston Island Official

 

Origin Notes and History of Barnston Island

References to Barnston Island that document the origin of its place name

Barnston Island (Post Office) adopted 11 February 1935 on 92 G/2, not "Barnston" as labelled on BC map 2B, 1914. Form of name changed to Barnston Island (Settlement) 3 July 1952 on 92 G/2, then to Barnston Island (Community).

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

Barnston Island Post Office opened 1 July 1911; closed 31 March 1944. At the time of closing, the post office was situated on Sec 9, NW 1/4, R 1.

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 George Barnston (1798-1882). Born at Edinburgh, listed with HBC from 1921. Barnston, Annance and Manson were the three Hudson's Bay Company clerks who accompanied Chief Factor James McMillan in HMS Cadboro, when he established Fort Langley, 1827. Barnston was in charge of Fort Nez Perces (Walla Walla) 1830-31, later moving east; chief trader 1840; retired 1863. He settled in Montreal and became president of the Natural History Society. Additional biographical information in the journals of John Work (1824) and James McMillan (1827). See also Barnston Island (island).

B.C. Geographical Names in Province of British Columbia
Provincial Archives of BC "Place Names File" compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions  |  Province of British Columbia

Governor Simpson described him as "A well educated man, very active and high spirited to a romantic degree, who will on no account do what he considers an improper thing".

B.C. Geographical Names in Province of British Columbia
Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V; British Columbia Place Names; Sono Nis Press, Victoria 1986 /or University of British Columbia Press 1997  |  Province of British Columbia

 

Metro Vancouver Regional District

Political Boundaries

Last updated: 2023-09-25