Point Grey is located at the south entrance to the Burrard Inlet. Captain George Vancouver named the point after his friend Captain George Grey.1 Spanish explorer Dionsisio Alcala-Galiano named it Punta de Langara.2 Today, the nearby residential district of Langara keeps alive the old Spanish name.3
1. Andrew Scott, The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 2009), 467.