The southern limit of the Halfmoon Bay plan area, where the south end of Redrooffs Road meets Highway 101.
Where Sargeant Bay sits, and the other places we attend
around Halfmoon Bay. Every name on the map is a link.
The southern edge of Electoral Area B
Sargeant Bay is at the south end of the Sechelt Peninsula, west of Trail Bay, in the New Westminster Land District. BC Geographical Names records it as official, adopted on 5 January 1926, at 49°28'22" north and 123°51'04" west, on map sheet 92G/5. It marks a boundary twice over. The Halfmoon Bay official community plan says its area "extends from Wood Bay in the northern part to Sargeant Bay in the southern part" (page 3), and the regional district describes Electoral Area B as stretching "along the coast from Sargeant Bay on its southern perimeter".
The south junction of Redrooffs Road with Highway 101 is here. That makes Sargeant Bay the nearest of the ten Halfmoon Bay neighbourhoods to town: road routing on 12 September 2026 gave 9.8 kilometres and 14 minutes to Sechelt Hospital, with the RCMP detachment on Teredo Street about two minutes beyond it. Under the community plan the properties from Sargeant Bay to Coopers Green are Residential C, an 8,000 square metre minimum parcel, the largest of the three residential categories in the plan area.
The marsh behind the beach was built by hand
Frederick Sargent was among the first European settlers here, arriving about 1892. He ditched, dyked and dammed the marshland at the head of the bay and ran a steam-driven sawmill. The wetland behind the beach berm is engineered ground, which is worth knowing if your lot drains toward it.
The park came much later. Sargeant Bay Park was established by Order in Council 424 on 23 March 1990 at 57 hectares, expanded to 142 hectares in 1997, and redefined in 2004 to 146 hectares, of which 143 are upland and 3 are foreshore. The park name decision is dated 30 May 1990 and its centre is recorded at 49°29'12" north, 123°52'26" west.
BC Parks puts the park 8.2 kilometres from Sechelt and gives the access as Highway 101 onto Redroofs Road. It is day use only, with no camping. There is a grassy and cobble beach, Beaver Pond and Colvin Lake, a salmon-bearing creek with a fish ladder giving fish access to Colvin Lake, and trails around Triangle Lake and Colvin Creek. E-bikes are not allowed on them. The park is run under contract by Swens Contracting. The Sargeant Bay Society maintains the marsh and creek works, and its volunteers finished a wheelchair-accessible fish-ladder viewing platform with a tempered glass panel on 18 August 2024. The society's president is Rand Rudland. The bus stop at the park is Redrooffs/Colvin Creek, on BC Transit Route 4.
The road out of here has been cut more than once
Redrooffs at Sargeant Bay appears in the list of Sunshine Coast washouts from the atmospheric river of 13 to 15 November 2021. The Kenyon Creek culvert that failed in the same storm is just east of Sargeant Bay Provincial Park, at about 55 metres elevation, and the road was closed in both directions from 3 to 18 September 2024 while that culvert was permanently replaced.
Wind has done the rest. On 4 November 2024 Redrooffs Road and Highway 101 were shut at the same time, and most of Halfmoon Bay was still without power the following evening. A crash at Hill Road on 8 June 2026 left 3,113 customers across Halfmoon Bay and West Sechelt without power.
Fire, water and the people who answer
Halfmoon Bay Volunteer Fire Department Hall 1 is at 8972 Redrooffs Road, north of here along the same road; Hall 2 is on Fawn Road. The department has 32 members and a paid full-time chief, and its duty officer line is 604-885-8017. Sechelt Fire responds automatically into Halfmoon Bay between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m., because a good number of the Halfmoon Bay members live outside the area. The regional district's Community Wildfire Protection Plan lists Halfmoon Bay among the communities of high wildfire risk, and notes that the Halfmoon Bay community plan does not include specific objectives and policies for managing wildfire hazard in Area B. Its nineteenth recommendation, high priority for two to three years, is to make wildfire a Development Permit Area there.
Properties at this end of the road are inside the regional district's Chapman water service area, which the community plan runs along Redrooffs Road and the highway through to Mercer Road.
What a check at Sargeant Bay covers
Heat on and holding through the heating season, or the plumbing drained and the main valve closed
The regional district water connection, meter box and interior shut-off, with the taps run after any repair
Ground drainage toward the wetland: ditches, swales and the driveway culvert clear of leaves and gravel
Crawlspace and under-floor inspection after a high tide combined with a southeast blow
Roof, gutters and the trees standing over the house and the power drop
Doors, windows, sheds and any boat or trailer on the lot, with locks tried by hand
Brush and firewood cleared back from the walls, in line with what the wildfire plan asks of Area B
A written and photographed record, dated, covering each item above
Insurers generally set a maximum gap between inspections of an unoccupied house during the heating season, four consecutive days being the figure most often written, and require a competent person to carry them out unless the water is off and the lines are drained. Policies differ, so read the clause that applies to yours.
What it costs
A scheduled check at Sargeant Bay 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.
