Barnston Island founded by Hudson's Bay Company
History
The island was named for George Barnston, a Hudson's Bay Company clerk, who travelled with Chief Factor James McMillan to found Fort Langley in 1827.Barnston Island first received electricity in 1938, following the laying of an underwater cable between Port Kells and the south side of the island.In 2004, a group of landowners applied to the provincial Agricultural Land Commission to have approximately 85% of the land outside the Indigenous community removed from the Agricultural Land Reserve. On July 19, 2006 the Commission rejected the application.