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Brownie loved her teaching career, first at Sugar Lake and Shawnigan Lake, and later at Cowichan Station School. She was a woman who was first, and foremost, i...

The Shawnigan Lake Lumber Company Mill began operations in 1890 right next to the E & N Rail (now the Old Mill Park site ). The Mill employed many locals, inclu...

Visit the T Garth Harvey Art Gallery, featuring EJ Hughes, dedicated to Pat Salmon at the Museum, Wed - Fri - 1:30 - 3:30. Sketches, prints, and some of his per...

October 19, 1886 British Colonist From the article: “The Island Railway Scenery” “Shawnigan Lake is seen hemmed in on all sides by thickly wooded mountains. ...

Talking about her time at the West Side School in the 1930s, Elsie Miles stated: "It was a very happy school because we were all one, after school was just as i...

(from Green Branches & Fallen Leaves) Several times in the thirties and forties, the summer residents and their children made themselves delightfully apparent ...

May 2011 - A local group visits the almost completed Kinsol Trestle. Rehabilitation on the trestle began in July 2010 overseen by the the local firm of MacDona...

SHOVELS IN THE GROUND! SHAWNIGAN LAKE, May 11, 2023 The Shawnigan Lake Historical Society is excited to share that the Museum expansion will get underway at t...

This house on the west side of the lake was built around 1894. It was the home of Rebekah and Henry Robertson (married in 1893). They had 6 children. Henry (Han...

This case went to court and the E&N was found guilty In November, 1930 by Justice W.A Macdonald "for the damage because of negligence in starting the fire on th...

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