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Check out our revamped website! Special thanks to Museum Board Director, Jillian Lawrence (Jillian Lawrence Inc.) for superb web design and Deb Battler (DE seo ...

At the Old Mill Park site many of the Mill remains are covered in ivy.

Strathcona Lodge School (now the site of St John’s Academy) On Thursday May 5, 1927 Miss Wilhelmina (“Minna”) Gildea became the new owner of the lovely Strathc...

Burnt Bridge and the Silver Mine “Burnt Bridge” is the third bridge on a site which has become a local landmark of considerable antiquity as well as a directio...

Fairbridge Farm School and the British Home Child Migration The Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School, a residential school for underprivileged British childr...

Week 11 of Project Impact. The work on foundation prep continued, as well as some interior deconstruction. We continue to be closed to visitors as wall preparat...

Every Child Matters $24.00 Native Northwest Orange Shirt features a unique design by Ts'msyen (Tsimshian) artist Morgan Asoyuf with the words “Every Child Matt...

Register at: https://victoriags.org Back by popular demand, the second VGS Field Trip to the Kinsol Trestle near Shawnigan Lake will be on a Saturday this year...

Did you know… That the concrete lion at Camp Shawnigan was built on Judge Hunter’s property, Rockvale, in the 1920s. The impressive lion, which still guards th...

Shawnigan’s First School The first school, where the Catholic Church once stood (now extra parking for the Black Swan Pub), was built in 1893. Its very name, M...

Dangers in the First Years of Logging at Shawnigan (from “Green Branches and Fallen Leaves” The first years of logging at Shawnigan (in the 1890’s) we read fr...

1903 Suburban Service to Shawnigan (from “The Canadian Pacific’s Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway — The CPR Steam Years, 1905-1949" by Robert D. Turner and Donald ...

From the writing of Brownie Gibson - November 1935 Dance and Card Parties The lounge of the Forest Inn, decorated with autumn foliage and flowers was the scen...

February 6, 1986 The Cowichan Leader Gov't aid urged to fend off milfoil The Cowichan Valley Regional District wants the provincial government to guard-agains...