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Fernwood (Vancouver Island)
1. Crofton / Mount Richards (Crofton, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Crofton, after Henry Croft, a mining engineer who was a brother-in-law of James Dunsmuir, the coal and lumber magnate. In 1900 Croft, manager of the Lenora, Mt. Sicker Copper Mining Company, bought land on Osborn Bay on which to build a smelter.
  2. Maple Bay (Crofton, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
3. Osborn Bay (Crofton, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Osborn Bay - After Captain (later Rear-Admiral) Sherard Osborn, RN (1822-75), Arctic explorer and author, who served with distinction in the Crimean War.
  4. Canoe Islets Ecological Reserve (Thetis Island, 13km) - Leave a Public Review
  5. Lyacksun 3 (Thetis Island, 13km) - Leave a Public Review
  6. North Galiano (Thetis Island, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  7. Rose Islets Ecological Reserve (Thetis Island, 13km) - Leave a Public Review
  8. Shingle Point 4 (Thetis Island, 13km) - Leave a Public Review
  9. Whaleboat Island Marine Park (Thetis Island, 13km) - Leave a Public Review
10. Chemainus / Governor Rock / Stuart Channel (Chemainus, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
From the Island Halkomelem word meaning 'bitten breast.' The horseshoe shape of the bay reminded Indians of the bite that a frenzied shaman would inflict upon a spectator during certain tribal ceremonies.
  11. Chemainus Land District (Chemainus, 13km) - Leave a Public Review
  12. Halalt 2 (Chemainus, 13km) - Leave a Public Review
  13. Halalt Island 1 (Chemainus, 13km) - Leave a Public Review
  14. Saltair (Chemainus, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  15. Say-La-Quas 10 (Chemainus, 13km) - Leave a Public Review
  16. Squaw-Hay-One 11 (Chemainus, 13km) - Leave a Public Review
  17. Tent Island 8 (Chemainus, 13km) - Leave a Public Review
  18. Tsussie 6 (Chemainus, 13km) - Leave a Public Review
19. Westholme / Mount Sicker (Chemainus, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Mount Sicker - After John J. Sicker, a pioneer homesteader with a reputation for stubborn individualism.
  20. North Cowichan (District) (North Cowichan, 17km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (250) 746-3183 - Leave a Public Review
  21. Cowichan 1 (Duncan, 20km) - Leave a Public Review
  22. Cowichan 9 (Duncan, 20km) - Leave a Public Review
  23. Deerholme (Duncan, 20km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
24. Duncan (City) / Quamichan Lake / Sansum Narrows / Waterloo Mountain (Duncan, 20km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (250) 746-6126 - Leave a Public Review
After William Chalmers Duncan, born 1836 in Sarnia, Ontario. He arrived in Victoria in May 1862, and in August of that year, he was one of the party of 100 settlers that Governor Douglas took to Cowichan Bay.
  25. Eagle Heights (Duncan, 20km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  26. Eves Park (Duncan, 20km) - Leave a Public Review
  27. Hayward (Duncan, 20km) - Leave a Public Review
  28. Hillbank (Duncan, 20km) - Leave a Public Review
  29. Hillcrest (Duncan, 20km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  30. Kakalatza 6 (Duncan, 20km) - Leave a Public Review
  31. Koksilah (Duncan, 20km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  32. Mount Tzuhalem Ecological Reserve (Duncan, 20km) - Leave a Public Review
33. Paldi (Duncan, 20km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Paldi - After a village in Punjab, India, birthplace of the Mayo brothers, who built a sawmill here.
  34. Quamichan Land District (Duncan, 20km) - Leave a Public Review
35. Sahtlam (Duncan, 20km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Sahtlam - From the Island Halkomelem word meaning 'evergreen.'
  36. Sahtlam Land District (Duncan, 20km) - Leave a Public Review
37. Somenos (Duncan, 20km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Somenos - The plural of a Cowichan Indian word meaning 'a resting place.' Here, on a quiet stretch of the Cowichan River, canoemen rested before resuming their paddling upstream.
  38. Somenos Land District (Duncan, 20km) - Leave a Public Review
  39. Tzart-lam 5 (Duncan, 20km) - Leave a Public Review
  40. Tzouhalem (Duncan, 20km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review