Bowen Island (Vancouver, Coast & Mountains, V0N 1G2)
1. Bowen Island (Island Municipality) / Collingwood Channel / Cowen Point / Cape Roger Curtis / Tunstall Bay / Apodaca Cove Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (604) 947-4255 - Leave a Public Review
After Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood. While still a captain, Collingwood commanded one of Lord Howe's warships at the battle of 'The Glorious First of June,' 1794.
2. Bowen Island Ecological Reserve Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
After Rear-Admiral James Bowen (1751-1835). He was master of HMS Queen Charlotte, flagship of Lord Howe during the British naval victory known as 'The Gloridus First of June,' 1794.
  3. Apodaca Park Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Apodaca was the name given to Bowen Island by José Maria Narvaez in 1791.
  4. Cowans Point Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  5. Cypress Park - Leave a Public Review
  6. Millers Landing - Leave a Public Review
  7. Mount Gardner Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  8. Pasley Island - Leave a Public Review
  9. Seymour Landing - Leave a Public Review
  10. Snug Cove - Leave a Public Review
  11. Anvil Island (Lions Bay, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Captain Vancouver gave this island its name because of 'the shape of the mountain that composes it.'
12. Brunswick (Lions Bay, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Takes its name from nearby Brunswick Mountain, which was named after HMS Brunswick, one of the ships that fought under Earl Howe on 'The Glorious First of June,' 1794.
  13. Brunswick Beach (Lions Bay, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
14. Camp ~ Mount Artaban (Lions Bay, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Takes its name from the nearby Camp Artaban (Anglican Church in Canada). This camp, in turn, was named after a character in Henry Van Dyke's The Story of the Other Wise Man.
15. Ekins Point (Lions Bay, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Ekins Point - After Admiral Sir Charles Ekins, RN (1768-1855)
16. Lions Bay (Village) / Bowyer Island / Deeks Creek / Mount Harvey / Howe Sound / Irby Point / Lions Gate /Montagu Channel (Lions Bay, 12km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (604) 921-9333 - Leave a Public Review
After Admiral Sir George Bowyer (1740-1800). Serving as rear-admiral under Lord Howe during the British naval victory known as 'The Glorious First of June,' he lost a leg but won a pension of 1,000 pounds and a baronetage.
  17. McNab Creek (Lions Bay, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  18. Chekwelp 26 (Gibsons, 12km) - Leave a Public Review
  19. Chekwelp 26A (Gibsons, 12km) - Leave a Public Review
  20. Eastbourne (Gibsons, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  21. Elphinstone (Gibsons, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
22. Gambier Harbour / Gambier Island (Gibsons, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Gambier Island - After Admiral of the Fleet James, Lord Gambier (1756-1833).
23. Gibsons (Town) / Gower Point / Hopkins Landing / Keats Island / Mariners Rest (Gibsons, 12km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (604) 886-2274 - Leave a Public Review
Gibsons - Originally 'Gibson's Landing,' but in 1947 local businessmen persuaded the post office to drop the 'Landing.'
24. Granthams Landing (Gibsons, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Granthams Landing - After Frederick Charles Grantham (1871-1954), a Vancouver lime juice manufacturer and 'a very kindly quiet gentleman.' In 1909 he arrived at Gibson's Landing looking for a good location for a summer cottage.
  25. Hopkins Landing (Gibsons, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
26. Langdale (Gibsons, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Langdale - This ferry terminal on Howe Sound is named after Robinson Henry Langdale (1835-1908), a Yorkshireman who pre-empted land on Langdale Creek in 1892.
  27. McCalls Landing (Gibsons, 12km) - Leave a Public Review
  28. New Brighton (Gibsons, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  29. Plumper Cove Marine Park (Gibsons, 12km) - Leave a Public Review
30. Port Mellon (Gibsons, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Port Mellon - After Captain Henry Augustus Mellon. After some years with the Royal Navy, during which he saw service in the Indian Mutiny, Captain Mellon served with the Allan Line and Dominion Steamship Company.
  31. Promontory (Gibsons, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  32. Schaltuuch 27 (Gibsons, 12km) - Leave a Public Review
  33. Seaside Park (Gibsons, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  34. Sechelt Band Lands (Chelohsin) 13 (Gibsons, 12km) - Leave a Public Review
  35. Sechelt Band Lands (Chickwat) 9 (Gibsons, 12km) - Leave a Public Review
  36. Sechelt Band Lands (Hunaechin) 11 (Gibsons, 12km) - Leave a Public Review
  37. Sechelt Band Lands (Klayekwim) 6 (Gibsons, 12km) - Leave a Public Review
  38. Sechelt Band Lands (Klayekwim) 6A (Gibsons, 12km) - Leave a Public Review
  39. Sechelt Band Lands (Klayekwim) 7 (Gibsons, 12km) - Leave a Public Review
  40. Sechelt Band Lands (Klayekwim) 8 (Gibsons, 12km) - Leave a Public Review