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(At the intersection of the Buttle Lake road and the John Hart Dam road, 4 miles west of Campbell River)
On a hot day in July 1938, an ominous smoke pillar near Gosling Lake signaled a forest fire which was to ravage 115 square miles of logged and timbered land. Over 1500 firefighters battled grimly for weeks to save timber and communities. Costs and damages were enormous. Reforestation, intensified by the Forest Service, helped to heal...
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(At Metchosin Schoolhouse, about 15 miles west of Victoria)
In spring, 1872, classes began in Metchosin Schoolhouse with Mrs. Elizabeth Fisher teaching 7 girls and 3 boys. On land donated by John Witty, and with its $300 cost shared equally by local settlers and the colonial government, it was the first new school building opened in British Columbia after Confederation. In regular use to 1914 and reopened in 1942, it finally closed its doors in 1949.
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(Located at the Mount Tolmie Lookout)
Before you lies Victoria, first settlement on Vancouver Island. The Hudson’s Bay Co., seeking a new western depot, built Fort Victoria in 1843. In the 1860s it prospered as a stepping stone to mainland gold strikes.
Protected by naval ships at Esquimalt, the fort grew from a distant outpost of empire to Canada’s westernmost capital.
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