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Davis Bay (Vancouver, Coast & Mountains)
  1. Sechelt Indian Government (District) (Sechelt Indian Government, 5km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (604) 740-5600 - Leave a Public Review
2. Buccaneer Bay (Sechelt, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
After the racehorse Buccaneer, which won the Royal Hunt cup at Ascot in 1861.
  3. Davis Bay (Sechelt, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
4. Halfmoon Bay (Sechelt, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Halfmoon Bay - Formerly known as Priestland Bay, after the Priestland family who pre-empted land here in 1889, this bay takes its present name from its shape.
  5. Mount Richardson Park (Sechelt, 5km) - Leave a Public Review
  6. Porpoise Bay Park (Sechelt, 5km) - Leave a Public Review
  7. Redroofs (Sechelt, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
8. Sechelt (District) / Thormanby Islands / Welcome Passage (Sechelt, 5km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (604) 885-1986 - Leave a Public Review
Sechelt - There are at least three versions of the meaning of this name: (1) it was the ancient name that the Sechelt Indians had for themselves;
  9. Sechelt Band Lands (Klaalth) 5 (Sechelt, 5km) - Leave a Public Review
  10. Sechelt Band Lands (Oalthkyim) 4 (Sechelt, 5km) - Leave a Public Review
  11. Sechelt Band Lands (Seshelt) 2 (Sechelt, 5km) - Leave a Public Review
  12. Sechelt Band Lands (Shannon Creek) 28 (Sechelt, 5km) - Leave a Public Review
  13. Sechelt Band Lands (Swaycalse) 3 (Sechelt, 5km) - Leave a Public Review
  14. Sechelt Band Lands (Tsawcome) 1 (Sechelt, 5km) - Leave a Public Review
15. Selma Park (Sechelt, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Selma Park - After the All Red Line's excursion steamer Selma, originally the eccentric Marquess of Anglesey's yacht Santa Cecilia.
  16. Tuwanek (Sechelt, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  17. Welcome Beach (Sechelt, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
18. Wilson Creek (Sechelt, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Wilson Creek - Although this is sometimes said to have been named after Canon G.H. Wilson of St. Michael's Anglican Church, Vancouver,
  19. Mount Elphinstone Park (Roberts Creek, 6km) - Leave a Public Review
20. Roberts Creek / Mount Elphinstone (Roberts Creek, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Mount Elphinstone - This mountain on Howe Sound was presumably named after Captain J. Elphinstone, who commanded HMS Glory in Howe's famous naval victory in 1794 known as 'The Glorious First of June.'
  21. Roberts Creek Park (Roberts Creek, 6km) - Leave a Public Review
  22. Buccaneer Bay Park (Halfmoon Bay, 16km) - Leave a Public Review
  23. Sargeant Bay Park (Halfmoon Bay, 16km) - Leave a Public Review
  24. Sechelt Inlets Marine Park (Halfmoon Bay, 16km) - Leave a Public Review
  25. Simson Marine Park (Halfmoon Bay, 16km) - Leave a Public Review
  26. Smuggler Cove Marine Park (Halfmoon Bay, 16km) - Leave a Public Review
  27. Chekwelp 26 (Gibsons, 17km) - Leave a Public Review
  28. Chekwelp 26A (Gibsons, 17km) - Leave a Public Review
  29. Eastbourne (Gibsons, 17km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  30. Elphinstone (Gibsons, 17km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
31. Gambier Harbour / Gambier Island (Gibsons, 17km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Gambier Island - After Admiral of the Fleet James, Lord Gambier (1756-1833).
32. Gibsons (Town) / Gower Point / Hopkins Landing / Keats Island / Mariners Rest (Gibsons, 17km) 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.'
33. Granthams Landing (Gibsons, 17km) 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.
  34. Hopkins Landing (Gibsons, 17km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
35. Langdale (Gibsons, 17km) 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.
  36. McCalls Landing (Gibsons, 17km) - Leave a Public Review
  37. New Brighton (Gibsons, 17km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  38. Plumper Cove Marine Park (Gibsons, 17km) - Leave a Public Review
39. Port Mellon (Gibsons, 17km) 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.
  40. Promontory (Gibsons, 17km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review