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The Unnecessary Alarm of Local Sportsmen
May 15, 1908 Daily Colonist The sportsmen of Shawnigan Lake were startled, not to say horrified, last week to see a gentleman whom they...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
Jun 14, 20242 min read
Frank Bell
by Brownie Gibson In the early thirties there came to Shawnigan a man whom everyone who was here at that time will remember. A...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
Jun 14, 20242 min read
Creating Relationships
A Daughter's Story of the E & N Dayliner from the 1980s Diana Manson A man of wisdom once said that wise parents create wonderful, loving...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
May 31, 20244 min read
A History of Leechtown Like No Other
From the Times-Colonist November 23, 2014 The VIEE and the Discovery of Gold on the Sooke and Leech Rivers By Bart van den Berk...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
May 30, 20242 min read
Shawnigan Lake Flower Show
By Lori Treloar The earliest notation regarding a Flower Show at Shawnigan Lake is made in conjunction with the 1915 Annual Regatta....
Shawnigan Lake Museum
May 27, 20242 min read
Chief Justice Hunter
By Lori Treloar Gordon Hunter, born in 1863, practiced law in Victoria and eventually became the Chief Justice of British Columbia. Near...
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May 24, 20243 min read
S.L.A.A. Hall—Past to Present
By Brownie Gibson (1966) Towards the end of the first decade of the 19th century, the budding community began to feel the need of a place...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
May 16, 20246 min read
Pretty Resort Up E&N Line Being Rapidly Built Up
July 24, 1906 Daily Colonist SHAWNIGAN LAKE With the exception of some three waterfront lots, all the surveyed two and a half acres...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
May 10, 20242 min read
The West Side School
Miss Elsie Miles arrived in Shawnigan Lake in 1933 to be the governess for Dr. Boyd’s three daughters. Elsie Miles states: It is hard to...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
May 6, 20242 min read
A Special Place
by Lori Treloar For most people, Shawnigan Lake inspires an intense lifelong relationship. I have yet to meet a resident, or a visitor,...
Lori Treloar
May 5, 20242 min read
William H. Stokes(1881-1938)
Born in Simla, India. His father, Whitley Stokes, had emigrated from Belfast to India, and rose to prominence as a government financier....
Shawnigan Lake Museum
Apr 26, 20241 min read
The Forest Inn
In 1926, the late Mr. Frederick C. Mason-Hurley came to Shawnigan Lake with his family, on his retirement from forty years with the...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
Apr 20, 20242 min read
How One Man Rescued Old Two Spot
By Donna Clements Victoria Daily Times December 2, 1970 DUNCAN — They all told Granger Taylor he was crazy to try and restore the 1910...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
Apr 17, 20243 min read
Over the Hill to Shawnigan and the Days of Long Ago
By Gus Sivertz Times-Colonist - September 13, 1959 There just didn’t seem to be any position that could possibly be as enviable and...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
Apr 7, 20244 min read
Oldham Road
Oldham Road is a cul-de-sac off Silvermine Road. The road is not far from the property where Lieutenant Colonel Frank Trevor Oldham and...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
Mar 31, 20242 min read
Recycle Reduce Reuse
by Lori Treloar, Executive Director Long before the idea that “recycle, reduce, re-use” was an expectation, the community of Shawnigan...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
Mar 28, 20243 min read
Shawnigan's First Dwelling on the Lake
The first dwelling built on the lake was constructed by Richard Halhed. The Halheds arrived in 1891, a year after the mill went into...
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Mar 14, 20243 min read
Important Women in Shawnigan's Early History
by Lori Treloar Alice Ravenhill Born in Snaresbrook, England, in 1859, Alice Ravenhill had a quintessentially strict Victorian childhood....
Shawnigan Lake Museum
Mar 7, 20244 min read
Early Days at Shawnigan
By Brownie Gibson (from Green Branches & Fallen Leaves) What was no doubt the first excursion train to Shawnigan Lake was run on Good...
Brownie Gibson
Mar 6, 20242 min read
Twenty Four Colonels on the West Arm Road — Shawnigan Lake in the 1920s
by Joan Mason Hurely c. late 1980s My husband, Denis Mason Hurley who came as a boy to live at Shaw in 1920, always claimed that in...
Joan Mason Hurley
Mar 3, 20242 min read
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