White Rock

White Rock (49˚01'00" 122˚48'00" E side of Boundary Bay, SE of Vancouver). This beachside community, now part of greater Vancouver, got its start as a summer cottage area for city residents. The Great Northern Rwy opened a station there in 1909, and a steamship pier was built in 1914. The name, which appears to date from about 1889 when the first subdivisions were being laid out, comes from a large whitish rock on the beach that was prominent enough to have served as a navigation mark....

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