North Vancouver-Seymour.
5 candidates, one seat.

The Tsleil-Waututh Nation's own name for itself is səlilwətaɬ, which it translates as the People of the Inlet. Its website gives the area its Ancestors occupied as 1,865 square kilometres, reaching north to Mount Garibaldi, east to Coquitlam Lake and west to Howe Sound. The Nation says its community is now centred on Burrard Inlet between Maplewood Flats and Deep Cove. It says that in autumn families camped on the Indian, Capilano and Seymour rivers to fish for pink and chum salmon. The commission's map shows the Indian River on the district's eastern edge, the Capilano River on its western edge and the Seymour River inside it.

The Nation names three villages beside one another on this shore: Squaw-uck, the Tsleil-Waututh Nation Indian Reserve No. 3, and Jol-gul-hook at Seymour Creek. BC Geographical Names places the reserve Burrard Inlet 3 on the north shore of Burrard Inlet, north of Berry Point. The North Shore Heritage Preservation Society writes that the ancestral village at what is now Cates Park was Whey-ah-wichen, which it translates as facing both directions or facing the wind.

The Nation says it continues to negotiate a treaty with Canada and British Columbia, a process that started in 1994, and that it has more than 600 members. It built an administration and health building in 2019. On October 25, 2019, it filed an Addition to Reserve with the federal government for 45 acres in Squaw-uck, to expand its reserve lands. In late September 2024 the Nation became the full owner of this land, named the stáʔtləw̓ District, at 2420 and 2452 Dollarton Highway across from Maplewood Flats.

BC Geographical Names records that Lynn Creek is named after Sapper John Linn of the Royal Engineers, who came to British Columbia in 1859 with the detachment sent after the Fraser River gold rush. Linn was born at Corstorphine, Edinburgh, on July 12, 1821. In 1869, the record says, he moved his family from New Westminster to a cottage on the north shore of Burrard Inlet just east of what is now Lynn Creek. He received Lot 204 as a free grant under the government's plan to reward soldier settlers. A survey made in 1869 labelled the creek Freds Creek. The record calls the spelling Lynn probably an error by the person who drew the map.

The North Shore Heritage Preservation Society says Linn died on 11 April 1876. His widow Mary Linn stayed on the land, raising cattle and oxen that hauled logs, until she sold it to Edward Mahon in 1891 for $22,000. The Society gives X̱á7elcha as the Squamish name for Lynn Creek. The Geographic Board of Canada adopted the name Lynn Creek in its 18th Report, dated 31 March 1924. MONOVA, the museum and archives of North Vancouver, says the District of North Vancouver was incorporated in 1891 and stretched from Horseshoe Bay in the west to Indian Arm in the east, leaving out Moodyville.

A 1992 North Shore Heritage column in the North Shore News, written by Dorothy Foster, describes the first house in the Lynn Valley area. Julius M. Fromme began building it in 1899 on District Lot 2023, facing a road used by loggers. In 1907, the column says, Fromme bought the Hastings Shingle Company, renamed it the Lynn Valley Lumber Company and built a second mill at Lynn Valley Road and Mountain Highway. That company logged the west bank of Lynn Creek. The column adds that Fromme served as reeve from 1924 to 1930.

MONOVA says the streetcar line to Lynn Valley was completed in 1912 and that Lynn Canyon opened as a municipal park the same year. The first Lynn Valley Day was held on September 14, 1912. The McTavish brothers gave five hectares beside Lynn Creek, and the District of North Vancouver added four. A suspension bridge opened that year as well and cost 10 cents to cross. The Lynn Canyon Ecology Centre, which the District operates, says the bridge hangs 50 metres above Lynn Creek and is free to cross today.

MONOVA records that a building at 3203 Institute Road, designed by Henry Blackadder, opened in 1920 as Lynn Valley Elementary School. In 2006 it opened as the archives of North Vancouver, and MONOVA places those archives in Lynn Valley.

The North Shore Heritage Preservation Society writes that the Canadian Robert Dollar Company bought 100 acres on Indian Arm at Roche Point on November 9, 1916. The land could be reached only by boat. The society cites a report in the North Shore Press of April 6, 1917, that a wharf able to load two ships at once was under construction and that the mill was being fitted with machinery. MONOVA dates the opening of the mill to 1917 and says it closed in 1942.

Dollar built a town for the workers. The Society lists homes, bunkhouses, a post office, a store, a church and a school, and says the mill workers included Indigenous, Chinese, Japanese and Sikh men. It says the company paid for a $40,000 water system running from the Seymour River to the mill, and that 24 children were ready to start at the school in the fall of 1917. The place became known as Dollarton instead of Roche Point. BC Geographical Names records that the Dollarton post office opened on 17 July 1918.

Robert Dollar died in 1932, a decade before the mill shut down, according to the Society. It cites a North Shore Press report of June 2, 1933, that gave the mill 130 employees and a capacity of 150,000 feet of lumber a day. The names Dollar Road and Dollarton Highway remain.

The North Shore Heritage Preservation Society says the British writer Malcolm Lowry arrived in Vancouver in 1939 with his wife. In 1940 they rented a small cabin built on piles at Lazy Bay, in an area of Dollarton that later became part of Cates Park. Lowry lived there until 1954. He finished the novel Under the Volcano at the cabin, and it was published in 1947. A fire destroyed the first cabin in 1944, and the Society says Lowry died in England in 1957.

Other squatters lived along this shore. The Society says the District of North Vancouver removed most of their shacks in 1958 to make way for Cates Park. MONOVA dates the dedication of Cates Park, also called Whey-ah-Wichen Park, to 1950 and says it was dedicated in memory of Charles H. Cates, founder of the Cates Towing Company. The Society adds that the park's entrance sign carries both names.

BC Geographical Names says Captain G.H. Richards of the British Admiralty named Deep Cove in 1859 or 1860, during his survey of the inlet. A British Admiralty chart published in 1860 from his surveys labelled the long inlet it opens onto as North Arm. The name Indian Arm was approved in 1921 after the Vancouver Harbour Commissioners proposed it. The record adds that Spanish explorers in 1792 were told the name Sasamat, which was applied either to Indian Arm or to all of Burrard Inlet. A summer post office named Deep Water opened on 16 May 1927 and was renamed Deep Cove on 22 March 1940. MONOVA says Deep Cove was developing as a summer resort by 1930, with Corfield's Dance Hall, and that the Deep Cove Yacht Club formed in 1936.

Mount Seymour and the Seymour River carry the name of Frederick Seymour, who succeeded James Douglas as Governor of the Colony of British Columbia and held the office from 1864 to 1869. BC Geographical Names records the first recorded climb of the mountain on 16 August 1908, by a party of the BC Mountaineering Club. The Geographic Board of Canada adopted the name Seymour Creek in 1917, and the form Seymour River was adopted on 6 May 1947. BC Parks says most settlers around Vancouver knew little of the mountain until the late 1920s, that members of the Alpine Club of Canada explored it as a place to ski in 1929, and that the park was established in 1936. BC Geographical Names gives 31 January 1936 as the date of the order that created it.

MONOVA records that the Greater Vancouver Water District was created in 1926 and drew water from the Capilano and Seymour River watersheds. Metro Vancouver's fact sheet says Seymour Falls Dam, on the Seymour River 18 kilometres north of Burrard Inlet, was built between 1959 and 1961 at a cost of $9.5 million. Its concrete section is 235 metres long and 30 metres high, and it stands upstream of the Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve. A seismic upgrade of the dam cost $44 million and ran from 2004 to 2007.

MONOVA says the Seymour-Capilano Filtration Plant began sending water to residents of Metro Vancouver in 2009 and treats water from the Capilano and Seymour watersheds. The commission's map of the district draws the Seymour River and Seymour Lake inside its boundary, and the district's northern boundary follows the Metro Vancouver Regional District.