Bamberton (Vancouver Island)
1. Bamberton (Malahat, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
After H.K. Bamber, managing director of British Portland Cement Manufacturers Ltd., who came from England to help with construction of a cement plant here.
  2. Leechtown (Malahat, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  3. Malahat (Malahat, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
4. Senanus Island 10 (Brentwood Bay, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Senanus Island - ). A Saanich (Straits salish) Indian word meaning 'chest' (of a person).
  5. South Saanich 1 (Brentwood Bay, 5km) - Leave a Public Review
  6. Arbutus Ridge (Mill Bay, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  7. Bamberton Park (Mill Bay, 8km) - Leave a Public Review
  8. Malahat 11 (Mill Bay, 8km) - Leave a Public Review
9. Mill Bay (Mill Bay, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Mill Bay - Takes its name from the sawmill built here by Henry S. Shepherd in 1861 and soon purchased by William Sayward.
  10. Central Saanich (District) (Central Saanich, 7km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (250) 652-4444 - Leave a Public Review
  11. Highlands (District) (Highlands, 11km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (250) 474-1773 - Leave a Public Review
  12. Cole Bay 3 (North Saanich, 10km) - Leave a Public Review
  13. North Saanich (District) (North Saanich, 10km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (250) 656-0781 - Leave a Public Review
  14. North Saanich Land District (North Saanich, 10km) - Leave a Public Review
  15. Refuge d'oiseaux de Shoal-Harbour (North Saanich, 10km) - Leave a Public Review
  16. Shoal Harbour Bird Sanctuary (North Saanich, 10km) - Leave a Public Review
  17. Union Bay 4 (North Saanich, 10km) - Leave a Public Review
18. Cobble Hill / Koksilah River (Cobble Hill, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
There are no cobblestones on Cobble Hill, the formation here being of limestone.
  19. Est-patrolas 4 (Cobble Hill, 13km) - Leave a Public Review
  20. Hatch Point 12 (Cobble Hill, 13km) - Leave a Public Review
  21. Shawnigan Land District (Cobble Hill, 13km) - Leave a Public Review
  22. Cliffside (Shawnigan Lake, 12km) - Leave a Public Review
  23. Helmcken Land District (Shawnigan Lake, 12km) - Leave a Public Review
  24. Koksilah River Park (Shawnigan Lake, 12km) - Leave a Public Review
25. Malahat / Finlayson Arm / Malahat Ridge (Shawnigan Lake, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Finlayson Arm - After Roderick Finlayson (1818-92). A native of Ross-shire, he arrived in Canada in 1837 and entered the service of the VIBC.
  26. Memory Island Park (Shawnigan Lake, 12km) - Leave a Public Review
  27. Shawnigan (Shawnigan Lake, 12km) - Leave a Public Review
  28. Strathcona Lodge (Shawnigan Lake, 12km) - Leave a Public Review
  29. West Shawnigan Lake Park (Shawnigan Lake, 12km) - Leave a Public Review
  30. Braemar Heights (Langford, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
31. Happy Valley (Langford, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Happy Valley - Around 1860 some blacks who had emigrated from the United States settled here. According to some accounts, their singing gave the place its name of Happy Valley.
  32. Langford (City) (Langford, 15km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (250) 478-7882 - Leave a Public Review
  33. Deep Cove (Sidney, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
34. Satellite Channel Ecological Reserve (Sidney, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Satellite Channel - After HMS Satellite, on this coast 1857-60 under Captain J.C. Prevost, a commissioner for establishing the maritime boundary between the British territory and the United States.
35. Sidney (Town) / Coles Bay / Gooch Island / Patricia Bay / Piers Island / Portland Island / Roberts Point (Sidney, 11km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (250) 656-1184 - Leave a Public Review
Coles Bay after John Coles, who first came to British Columbia in 1851 as a midshipman on HMS Thetis.
36. Swartz Bay (Sidney, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Swartz Bay - This should be Swart's Bay, it being named after John Aaron Swart, who purchased land in the vicinity of the bay in 1876.
  37. View Royal (Town) (View Royal, 16km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (250) 479-6800 - Leave a Public Review
38. Albert Head (Colwood, 18km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Albert Head - After Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria.
  39. Beaver Lake (Colwood, 18km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
40. Colwood (City) / Dunns Nook / Fisgard Island / Fort Rodd / Royal Roads / Wittys Lagoon (Colwood, 18km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (250) 478-5999 - Leave a Public Review
In 1851, when Captain E.E. Langford arrived from England to manage the Esquimalt farm of the Puget Sound Agricultural Company, a subsidiary of the HBC, he named the farmhouse Colwood after his home in Sussex.