White Rock

White Rock

White Rock (population: 18,755) is located on the Semiahmoo Peninsula, about a 45-minute drive south from Vancouver, and just minutes from the Douglas (Peace Arch) US border crossing. This quaint, oceanside community is known for its year-round mild climate, a relaxed atmosphere, sizeable 8-km (5-mi) sandy beach(es) as well as a 2.2-km (1.2-mi) promenade from which to view magnificent Semiahmoo Bay. White Rock is named after the 441-tonne (486-ton) rock that rests of the shores of the beach, apparently left when glaciers receded thousands of years ago. Native legend holds that the white rock was hurled across the Strait of Georgia by the son of a Salish sea god in love with a Cowichan maiden. He declared, “Where this rock lands, there we will make our new home and establish our new tribe.”