Vancouver Island History

Stories from the Colonial decade include the building of the first sawmill, the first legislative assembly of the colony, and early Victoria theatrical performances. Post-colonial stories include the building of the Malahat Drive and stories from the earliest days of Canada's Navy in Esquimalt.

• Agnes McKenzie’s Craigflower Dream House
• Attach Frazer’s River to Vancouver’s Island
• British Columbia Nursing Sisters in WWI
• Cole Island Naval Magazine
• Craigflower - The British Empire Connection
• Esquimalt's Historic Halfway House
• Esquimalt's St. Paul's Church
• Granny Wale's Fine Dairy Products
• Historic View Royal Limekiln
• Miss Phillips Remembers the Dockyard
• Thetis Cove's Earliest Subdivision
• Trolley to Esquimalt
• Vancouver Island's First Legislature
• Vancouver Island's Malahat Drive

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For more information on the history of
Vancouver Island: (Links will open in a new window)

• BC Archives
• City of Victoria Municipal Archives
• District of Saanich Municipal Archives
• Nauticapedia (for coastal marine history)
• Township of Esquimalt Municipal Archives
• University of Victoria Archives
• Victoria Historical Society
• viHistory

Granny Wale's Fine Dairy Products

Image by Cecil Clark, courtesy Royal BC Museum,
BC Archives - Source from Call Number: B-04588

Recollections of the old stone dairy at Colwood farm in the 1890s. Also, read about the efforts to preserve this 160 year old building on Goldstream Avenue in Langford.

New updates, news stories and video on the efforts to protect 2 other local heritage sites

• Cole Island
• View Royal Limekiln

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