Sunnyside, Surrey
Sunnyside is a neighbourhood of South Surrey, which in turn is a region of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. History Origin of the name There is no historical significance to the name, other than that its location is on the sunnier, south slope of the "uplands" of Surrey, on the Semiahmoo peninsula. First Nations and the Semiahmoo Trail As traders, the original Coast Salish peoples since the last Ice Age established communities at the mouths of the local rivers, the Nicomekl, Serpentine, and Campbell Rivers, which connected them to inland communities. As the forebears of the present Semiahmoo First Nation faced raids from northern First Nations' groups, they used what came to be known as the Sunnyside area as access to a fort built in the 1830s on what is now the Ocean Park bluffs. The Semiahmoo also used a route across the Sunnyside area of South Surrey to cross the ridge between the Campbell River to the south and Mud Bay to the north, where the Nicomekl and Serpentine were. By 1890 this was called the Semiahmoo Trail. Telegraph Trail (The Collins Overland Telegraph) The Telegraph Trail was built along this route in 1865 meant as part of a telegraph