Coombs (Vancouver Island)
1. Coombs / Hilliers Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Named after Captain Coombs of the Salvation Army, which in 1910-11 established a settlement here for a number of working-class Englishmen and their families from Leeds, Yorkshire.
  2. Cameron Lake (Errington, 4km) - Leave a Public Review
  3. Dunsmuir Land District (Errington, 4km) - Leave a Public Review
  4. Englishman River Falls Park (Errington, 4km) - Leave a Public Review
5. Errington (Errington, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Errington - An early resident, Duncan McMillan, is presumed to have taken this name from a passage in Sir Walter Scott's 'Jock of Hazeldean.'
6. Mount Arrowsmith Park (Errington, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
After the famous English cartographers Aaron Arrowsmith (1750-1823) and his nephew John Arrowsmith.
  7. Bowser Ecological Reserve (Qualicum Beach, 6km) - Leave a Public Review
  8. Dashwood (Qualicum Beach, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
  9. Dolphin Beach (Qualicum Beach, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
  10. Hi'tatis (Qualicum Beach, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
  11. Hilliers (Qualicum Beach, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
  12. Horne Lake Caves Park (Qualicum Beach, 6km) - Leave a Public Review
  13. Little Qualicum Falls Park (Qualicum Beach, 6km) - Leave a Public Review
  14. Northfield (Qualicum Beach, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
  15. Qualicum (Qualicum Beach, 6km) - Leave a Public Review
16. Qualicum Beach (Town) (Qualicum Beach, 6km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (250) 752-6921 - Leave a Public Review
Qualicum - Dr. Robert Brown, reporting on his explorations on Vancouver Island in 1864, mentions the beautiful tract of country extending past the Quall-e-hum River.
  17. Qualicum National Wildlife Area (Qualicum Beach, 6km) - Leave a Public Review
  18. Réserve nationale de faune de Qualicum (Qualicum Beach, 6km) - Leave a Public Review
  19. Spider Lake Park (Qualicum Beach, 6km) - Leave a Public Review
  20. Whisky Creek (Qualicum Beach, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
  21. French Creek (Parksville, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
  22. Nanoose Land District (Parksville, 8km) - Leave a Public Review
23. Parksville (City) / Englishman River (Parksville, 8km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (250) 248-6144 - Leave a Public Review
Englishman River - Named, at least as early as 1883, in commemoration of an otherwise forgotten Englishman who drowned trying to cross this stream.
24. Rathtrevor Beach Park (Parksville, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Rathtrevor Beach Park - In 1885 W.H. Rath, formerly an officer in the Royal Navy, established Wildrose Farm here.
  25. Bryn (Nanoose Bay, 16km) - Leave a Public Review
  26. Gerald Island Park (Nanoose Bay, 16km) - Leave a Public Review
27. Nanoose Bay / Enos Lake / Richard Point / Wallis Point / Ballenas Islands (Nanoose Bay, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Enos Lake - After John Enos, the name adopted by a Portuguese who pre-empted here in 1864. Captain Walbran has a story that, when the Indians began to harass Enos, he flitted around them, dressed in white, playing a ghost in the night,