A named point since 1945, the end of the Davis Bay seawalk, and the place where the drinking water of 27,000 people runs into the Strait of Georgia.
Where Mission Point sits, and the other places we attend
around Davis Bay. Every name on the map is a link.
The headland at the south-east end of the bay
Mission Point is the headland closing the south-east end of Davis Bay, in the District of Sechelt, at the place where Chapman Creek reaches the Strait of Georgia. BC Geographical Names records it as feature 29612, a point, official since 28 July 1945, on map sheet 92G/5, under the heading elevated shoreline features. It is the end of the Davis Bay seawalk: the 2024 Sechelt Arts Festival opened its Celebration of the Salish Sea with a procession from the Davis Bay pier to Mission Point Park. The Davis Bay Sandcastle Competition runs on the beach here, and a record 40 teams entered on 1 August 2026.
The estuary was cut in 1936
The creek did not always come out here. The Sunshine Coast Conservation Association records the historical estuary mouth as having been at Wilson Creek, diverted to the present Davis Bay outlet in 1936. The water at Mission Point is therefore running through a channel that is 90 years old and man-made, and the low ground behind the highway toward the eastern end of the bay is the creek's former floodplain. That is a documented reason for the ponding the community association has repeatedly complained about on that stretch of Highway 101.
The creek supplies 27,000 people and is a protected stream
Chapman Creek is the drinking water source for about 27,000 people and is managed under a Joint Watershed Management Agreement signed in 2005 between the shíshálh Nation and the Sunshine Coast Regional District. In 2000 it became a sensitive stream under the BC Fisheries Protection Act, one of only 15 streams in the province to carry the designation. It holds chum, which peaked at 3,500 spawners in 1973 and 1974, along with coho, pink, winter and summer steelhead, rainbow trout, Dolly Varden, cutthroat and chinook. Steelhead were listed as special concern in 2002. The conservation association's own assessment is that it is not clear any wild self-sustaining salmon stocks remain, and it names regional district withdrawals during late summer low flow as one cause. More than 300 landslides came off unstable logged slopes upstream between 1967 and 1992, and a 1998 watershed management plan was completed but never carried out. Chapman Creek Hatchery, run by the Sunshine Coast Salmonid Enhancement Society, is upstream at 4381 Parkway Drive, grounds open daily from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Mission Point House is the only District building on this shore
Mission Point House stands at 4603 Sunshine Coast Highway. It is a District of Sechelt rental facility of 900 square feet, post and beam with a cedar side, holding a living room, dining room, small kitchen, large deck and yard. Capacity inside is 30 people. Parking is for two or three vehicles only, and it is open from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. The rate is $17.50 an hour for the house, $41 an hour for house and park together, $125 a day for the house and $265 a day for both. The damage deposit is $300, or $500 for a wedding. Mission Point Park surrounds it at the creek mouth and has held the community Easter egg hunt. There is no other District-owned rentable building in Davis Bay, Selma Park or Wilson Creek.
No plant here, and one bridge
Highway 101 crosses Chapman Creek immediately behind the point, and it is the only road crossing of the creek. The province's July 2025 alternate route study calls Highway 101 the only route connecting the various communities, treats Davis Bay as Segment B, and declined to recommend a bypass with a second bridge; it proposed a small emergency-responder crossing instead. Mayor John Henderson has described a second crossing as a need, and in November 2025 the regional district directed staff to examine keeping an emergency modular bridge in local storage. Road distances from the Davis Bay wharf put Sechelt Hospital at 3.8 kilometres and five minutes, the fire hall at 4.6 kilometres, seven minutes, and the RCMP detachment at 5.1 kilometres, eight minutes. There is no wastewater treatment plant at Mission Point and no lift station recorded here; the Sechelt Water Resource Centre is at 5678 Surf Circle in downtown Sechelt. The District's own account of its collection system notes that it takes on stormwater infiltration during heavy precipitation.
What a check at Mission Point covers
Storm debris and driftwood pushed off the beach onto driveways, lawns and parking after a southeast or west blow
Doors, windows, gates and outbuildings on a lot that backs onto public park ground with year-round foot traffic
Salt film and corrosion on locks, hinges, railings and window hardware
Heat on and holding, or the stopcock closed and the system drained down
Crawlspace and basement after heavy rain, given the low ground behind the highway
Roof drainage, downspouts and the driveway culvert running clear to the ditch
Anything stored outside that a crowd walks past on festival, sandcastle and long weekend days
Every point above photographed and dated, and the record sent that day
Insurers generally set a condition on an empty house: somebody competent must attend it on a fixed cycle while the heating season lasts, frequently at gaps of no more than four days, unless the plumbing has been drained and the supply closed. The wording is not identical between companies. Check what your own policy actually says before fixing a visit schedule.
What it costs
A scheduled check at Mission Point is
$55 a visit, plus
$10 travel. The travel charge is the same
everywhere between Gibsons and Egmont. There is no minimum term and no joining fee.
See the full price list.
Where these facts come from
Every figure, date and quotation on this page was taken from one of these. They are
listed so you can read them yourself.
