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The Citizen – January 8, 1989 By Judith Belton If you’ve ever lain awake on a stormy winter night and wondered whether the next blow...

By Emery Sanderson In 1913 “All Saint’s Anglican Church” was built overlooking the junction of Shawnigan Lake and Renfrew Roads. For 25...

(from the Shawnigan Focus , October 2021) Excerpt from the Community Crier, September 1981 On January 12, 1948, representatives from the...

(from Green Branches & Fallen Leaves) An integral and important part of the history of Shawnigan Lake, and one that is important to its...

Around the turn of the 20th century, there was an influx of retired British Army Colonels at Shawnigan Lake. These twenty (or so) men had...

Christmas has always been a special occasion for the residents of Shawnigan Lake. In 1900, the Koenig Hotel on the village waterfront...

by Brownie Gibson, from Green Branches and Fallen Leaves The most colourful facet of the whole timber industry at Shawnigan involved the...

BRUCE HUTCHISON (who died on September 14, 1992, aged 91) enjoyed such eminence as a journalist that he conducted editorial policy for...

(from Victoria Daily Times, July 5, 1941) by Ceres Hay curing by the wooden tripod method is becoming more popular with British Columbia...

Media contact: Lori Treloar, Executive Director Shawnigan Lake Museum museum@shawniganlakemuseum.com 250-743-8675 For immediate release:...

Major Thomas George Dundas was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on May 14, 1853. He and his wife (Mary) and three children emigrated to Canada...

This lovely photo evokes a lost age of peace and serenity on the waterfront. The two boats in the waterfront are 12 foot and 14 foot...

Although the tales of the old days are colourful, probably no one would like to accept all the primitive facilities that they took for...

From the Cowichan Leader, Duncan, December 1, 1955. p. 4. By N.P. Dougan From Shawnigan Lake Village via Renfrew Road, it is eight miles...

1950 article from unknown local newspaper) The Shawnigan Lake district of southern Vancouver Island is famous for its beauty and Bobby Ross, the local Provincial constable. Cottagers have been spending lazy months at Shawnigan ever since the advent of the automobile, and they go back year after year to enjoy the calm tranquility of one of nature's grand spots. When the Provincial Police detachment was opened some years ago, the powers that be made a singularly lucky choice i

by Lori Treloar Prior to the Malahat highway there were two land routes to the Cowichan Valley. The first, known as the Goldstream Trail,...

by Lori Treloar Early records indicate that the Women’s Institute ran a library at Shawnigan Lake for a short time in 1919 but there is...

The non-mill residents worked as diligently as their mill partners to provide the organization necessary for a strong community. Almost...

by Lori Treloar Many of the people who came to British Columbia, late in the 19th century, did so because they thought that they could...

“My father, Richard Beauchamp Halhed, had lived for some years in New Zealand, where my two brothers and I were born. He then returned...