False Creek

False Creek (49˚17'00" 123˚08'00" E of English Bay, Vancouver). Named by RN surveyor Capt George Richards in 1859 when he discovered that this waterway didn’t lead anywhere. “Creek” was a common 19th-century Admiralty term for a small inlet that dried at low tide, and BC once had dozens of them. Their names have mostly been changed now to “inlets” or “coves” except this one, which remains as an example of an earlier nomenclature. False Ck used to be the industrial centre of...

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