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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 27, 20254 min read
By Shawnigan Lake’s Shores—The Jewel’s Setting
By Robert Connell Victoria Daily Times August 15, 1931 Note: Although rather lengthy (reading time ~16-17 minutes), this article by the...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
May 26, 202512 min read
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 19, 20254 min read
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 17, 20257 min read
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 6, 20253 min read
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 25, 20255 min read
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...
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Apr 24, 20252 min read
His Memories Enrich South Cowichan History
By E. Blanche Norcross The Province, B.C. Magazine April 13, 1957 The trouble with our pioneers, as many a frustrated historian has...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
Apr 7, 20255 min read
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 15, 20252 min read
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 24, 20252 min read
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 19, 20252 min read
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 13, 20257 min read
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 29, 20254 min read
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 22, 20255 min read
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 21, 20254 min read
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 15, 20254 min read
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 3, 20253 min read
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 3, 20255 min read
Industry
1889 – The Shawnigan Lake Lumber Company was founded by William Lossee. He had worked as a master mechanic for the E & N railway. As he...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
Jan 3, 20253 min read
Making the Old Hall Hot
By Garth Harvey , longtime Shawnigan resident; Museum, Family Caregivers and community supporter and all around great guy. It was about...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
Dec 13, 20244 min read
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