Croydon (flag station) adopted 23 May 1963, as labelled on BC map 3H, 1919, and as identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer. Form of name changed to Croydon (locality) 31 May 1983 on 83E/4.
The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway station at Croydon (Mile 63) was named after the town of Croydon, England.
The name appears on the 1915 land pre-emptor’s map of the McBride area. Etter and McDougal Lumber operated an 80-man sawmill at Croydon until 1919, when a brush fire spread to the yard. Sandy McDougal allowed the Croydon school board to use an old bunk house for the school. Contributions from Croydon, England, made possible the construction of an Anglican Church and burial grounds in 1935.
The Croydon post office was open from 1917 to 1968.
Origin of the name unknown.
Labelled on Reference Map 22E (1957 or earlier).
Raymond Olson writes: Around the beginning of World War II, Bert and Wilfred Leboe started a small mill two miles east of Loos at what became Crescent Spur. They had seen an opportunity in using the back channel of the Fraser River to transport and store their logs and thus minimize transportation, loading and unloading costs. They were still logging for Thrasher and they set about getting materials to Crescent Spur to construct their mill. There wasn’t a road between Loos and Crescent Spur so everything had to be transported by speeder. The money made from working for Thrasher was used to pay for a Spur line put in by the C.N.R. at a cost of $700. A side track with a switch at one end connecting to the main line is quite often referred to as a “Spur”; this coupled with the “Crescent” shape of the back channel may have been the origin of the name of the community. This is only speculation on my part as no one has been able to give me a clear indication of as to why it was called Crescent Spur; however Bert Leboe is credited with coming up with the name Crescent Spur.
Origin of the name unknown.
The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway station at Mile 126 west of the Yellowhead Pass appears as “Crescent Island” on a 1914 timetable, but by 1918 it was known as “Loos” after the site of a battle in the First World War.
Lloyd Crate (born 1920) was maintenance foreman for the department of highways for most of the twenty-five years he worked in the McBride-Tête Jaune Cache area. Crate was born in Prince Rupert, and came to Lucerne , in Mount Robson Park, around 1945. Ice from Lucerne Lake supplied Canadian National Railroad passenger trains, and Crate worked in the icehouses one summer. Starting in 1936, the Crate family operated a fishing and hunting camp on Yellowhead Lake. In 1961 they moved to Tête Jaune Cache. At a farewell dance in the Red Pass community hall, “best wishes were extended from all the district with the hope that Lloyd will frequently be seen in the district operating the highways grader.” He retired in 1980.