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The Village c 1960
By Mary Hopson The center of Shawnigan village is at the intersection of Mill Bay Road and Old Victoria Road. Most of the local "stores"...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
Jun 22 min read
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Elsie Miles Park
The Elsie Miles School grounds, with its longstanding tradition of serving as the Village playing fields, have been an integral, public...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
May 282 min read
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ELSIE MILES - the School and the Person
by Lori Treloar  Like many small schools around the province, Elsie Miles Elementary School, in the Shawnigan Lake Village, closes...
Lori Treloar
May 274 min read
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By Shawnigan Lake’s Shores—The Jewel’s Setting
By Robert Connell Victoria Daily Times August 15, 1931 Note:Â Although rather lengthy (reading time ~16-17 minutes), this article by the...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
May 2612 min read
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Pair of Hearts
Caring couple to check out of Shawnigan Lake centre January 27, 2000 Times-Colonist By Bill Cleverley Times Colonist staff If a...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
May 194 min read
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1846: A NIGHT IN VANCOUVER ISLAND WOODS.
A story from the earliest days of Fort Victoria on Vancouver Island. from The East Kent Gazette(1861). Sittingbourne, England (published...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
May 177 min read
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First Driver Into Shawnigan
...Bert Todd Led Tourist Parade At two minutes before six a.m., May 29, 1903, the Vancouver Island tourist industry was born. At that...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
May 63 min read
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The Last Rail of the Island Railway to be Laid To-day
Sir John and Lady Macdonald to Traverse the Line the Premier Driving the Golden Spike Daily Colonist August 10, 1886 To-day the last rail...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
Apr 255 min read
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Shawnigan Women’s Institute
by Lori Treloar   The Shawnigan Women’s Institute, incorporated in 1914, grew out of an active WWI Red Cross group and had 35 original...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
Apr 242 min read
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His Memories Enrich South Cowichan History
By E. Blanche Norcross The Province, B.C. Magazine April 13, 1957 Â Â Â The trouble with our pioneers, as many a frustrated historian has...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
Apr 75 min read
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Munsie Road
Meet William McGillivray Munsie, a true Nova Scotian entrepreneur! Born in Pictou in 1849, he started his career as a pattern-maker. In...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
Mar 152 min read
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Armstrong Road
by Lori Treloar On some Shawnigan Lake maps, Armstrong Road is included. It runs East – West from the lake on the north end of the West...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
Feb 242 min read
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Halhed Road
by Lori Treloar You will not find Halhed Road on a current Shawnigan Lake map but it was one of the first roads named in the area. Halhed...
Lori Treloar
Feb 192 min read
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Shawnigan Lake Famous Health Resort
February 1, 1930 Victoria Daily Times Two Private Schools Draw Notice to Beautiful Area  Shawnigan Lake, about twenty-eight miles from...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
Feb 137 min read
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THE HEAT OF A VILLAGE OUTWARMS A HEARTLESS BLAZE
February 7, 1976 Victoria Daily Times A Column by Max Low It was quite a simple notice, really. And yet there was one word that roused a...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
Jan 294 min read
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Joan Austen-Leigh
Times-Colonist June 3, 2001  By May Brown  When Joan Mason Hurley set out to write her latest novel, Invitation to the Party , she had...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
Jan 225 min read
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May 1888 – BC Championship Sculling at Shawnigan Lake
Victoria Daily Times   May 4, 1888   SCULLING MATTERS.  Paine and Ball  H. J. Ball, of Vancouver, arrived on Wednesday night and...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
Jan 214 min read
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When the E&N Was for People
There are people for, and people against, the idea of restoring service on the E&N Rail line. If you are in your later years, and grew up...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
Jan 154 min read
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Shawnigan Schools, Hotels and Stores
SHAWNIGAN SCHOOLS 1893 – The first Shawnigan School, originally called Malahat School, was built on the site of the present day Catholic...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
Jan 33 min read
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SETTLERS CLEARING THE LAND
The first job of the settler was to clear the land so that a house could be built and crops planted. This was an arduous task in the...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
Jan 35 min read
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