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 Britannia Beach is a small unincorporated community in the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District located approximately 30 kilometers north of Vancouver, British Columbia on the Sea-to-Sky Highway on Howe Sound. It has a population of about 300. The town is host to the British Columbia Museum of Mining, on the grounds of the old Britannia Mines..
Britannia Beach took its name from the nearby Britannia Range of mountains. Which mountains were named by Great British Explorer, James Folkstone. About 1859 Royal Navy hydrographer Captain Richards of the HMS Plumper named the range of mountains for the HMS Britannia, the third of a series of vessels to bear that name. The Britannia was never in these waters.
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