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Logging Operations – Looking Back
by Brownie Gibson, from Green Branches and Fallen Leaves The most colourful facet of the whole timber industry at Shawnigan involved the...
Brownie Gibson
Dec 17, 20232 min read
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Bruce Hutchison
BRUCE HUTCHISON (who died on September 14, 1992, aged 91) enjoyed such eminence as a journalist that he conducted editorial policy for...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
Dec 10, 20234 min read
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Shawnigan Farmer Proves Hay Tripod Method
(from Victoria Daily Times, July 5, 1941) by Ceres Hay curing by the wooden tripod method is becoming more popular with British Columbia...
Ceres
Dec 3, 20232 min read
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Press Release
Media contact: Lori Treloar, Executive Director Shawnigan Lake Museum museum@shawniganlakemuseum.com 250-743-8675 For immediate release:...
Lori Treloar
Dec 1, 20231 min read
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Dundas Road
Major Thomas George Dundas was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on May 14, 1853. He and his wife (Mary) and three children emigrated to Canada...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
Dec 1, 20231 min read
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The Boat at Flemming Cabin c1920
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...
Robert Lawson
Nov 23, 20232 min read
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The Shawnigan Lake Volunteer Fire Department – The Early Days
Although the tales of the old days are colourful, probably no one would like to accept all the primitive facilities that they took for...
Brownie Gibson
Nov 17, 20232 min read
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Fabled Lost Silver Mine on the Banks of the Koksilah
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...
NP Dougan
Nov 12, 20237 min read
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The Ambassador of Shawnigan Lake
1950 article from unknown local newspaper) The Shawnigan Lake district of southern Vancouver Island is famous for its beauty and Bobby...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
Nov 5, 20233 min read
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Malahat Drive
by Lori Treloar Prior to the Malahat highway there were two land routes to the Cowichan Valley. The first, known as the Goldstream Trail,...
Lori Treloar
Nov 3, 20232 min read
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A Library at Shawnigan Lake
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...
Lori Treloar
Oct 27, 20232 min read
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Community
The non-mill residents worked as diligently as their mill partners to provide the organization necessary for a strong community. Almost...
Lori Treloar
Oct 23, 20232 min read
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A Goldrush of Our Very Own
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...
Lori Treloar
Oct 19, 20232 min read
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1892 - Settling on Shawnigan Lake
“My father, Richard Beauchamp Halhed, had lived for some years in New Zealand, where my two brothers and I were born. He then returned...
Brownie Gibson
Oct 13, 20232 min read
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William Losee
by Lori Treloar Have you ever wondered about the street names in our community? Losee Road is a short road that runs south off Baldy...
Lori Treloar
Oct 10, 20232 min read
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Early Pioneers
(As told by George V Copley) December 31, 1968) A short recital (to about the year 1900) of some of the early pioneers of Mill Bay,...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
Oct 5, 202310 min read
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The Mysterious Origin of the name Shawnigan
By Daniel Marshall Some years ago, an out-of-town friend was surprised see that there existed a "Shawnigan Lake." 'What coincidence,"...
Daniel Marshall
Sep 15, 20234 min read
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Why is the expansion important?
The Shawnigan Lake Historical Society moved into the redundant Shawnigan Fire Hall, in 1983, and set up the permanent home for the...
Lori Treloar
Sep 13, 20231 min read
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Shawnigan Lake Lumber Company
Kendalle Freeman, Summer Student – Shawnigan Lake Museum The Shawnigan Lake Lumber Company began a simple start in the late 1880’s.This...
Kendalle Freeman
Sep 13, 20233 min read
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What does Nellie Melba, the Australian singing sensation, have to do with Shawnigan Lake?
Melba Toast have in common? Both were named after world renowned Australian singer Nellie Melba. And, you ask, what could that possibly...
Lori Treloar
Sep 9, 20233 min read
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