In 1935, the Women's Institute petitioned to rename the area after George and Philip Westphal, two brothers born near Salmon River who eventually became Royal Navy admirals and who returned to the area from time to time.

St. Luke's Anglican Church began in 1948 to accommodate the growing population, originally running out of a poultry house owned by Peter Dooks on Tacoma Drive.

It then moved to Admiral Westphal Elementary School for two years, before a dedicated church building was built in 1954.

St. Thomas More Church was established in the early 1950s, originally near the juncture of Waverley Road and the Eastern Shore highway.

After the provincial government acquired the land to build a new highway, the church moved to the corner of Main Street and Caledonia Road, where it remains today.