Leechtown (Vancouver Island)
1. Becher Bay 1 (Sooke, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
After Commander Alexander Becher, RN (1796-1876), a surveying officer.
  2. Becher Bay 2 (Sooke, 12km) - Leave a Public Review
  3. East Sooke (Sooke, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  4. Fraser Island 6 (Sooke, 12km) - Leave a Public Review
  5. Lamb Island 5 (Sooke, 12km) - Leave a Public Review
  6. Long Neck Island 9 (Sooke, 12km) - Leave a Public Review
  7. Milnes Landing (Sooke, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  8. Otter Land District (Sooke, 12km) - Leave a Public Review
  9. River Jordan (Sooke, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  10. Saseenos (Sooke, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
11. Shirley (Sooke, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Shirley - Named after the Hampshire village from which Edwin Clark, the first postmaster, came.
12. Sooke (District) / French Beach Park / Grant Rocks / River Jordan/ Leech River / Mount Maguire / Milnes Landing (Sooke, 12km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (250) 642-1634 - Leave a Public Review
French Beach Park - After James George French, who settled here around 1890.
  13. Sooke Land District (Sooke, 12km) - Leave a Public Review
  14. Sooke Potholes Park (Sooke, 12km) - Leave a Public Review
  15. T'Sou-ke 1 (Sooke, 12km) - Leave a Public Review
  16. T'Sou-ke 2 (Sooke, 12km) - Leave a Public Review
  17. Village Island 7 (Sooke, 12km) - Leave a Public Review
  18. Whale Island 8 (Sooke, 12km) - Leave a Public Review
19. Bamberton (Malahat, 12km) 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.
  20. Leechtown (Malahat, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  21. Malahat (Malahat, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  22. Cliffside (Shawnigan Lake, 19km) - Leave a Public Review
  23. Helmcken Land District (Shawnigan Lake, 19km) - Leave a Public Review
  24. Koksilah River Park (Shawnigan Lake, 19km) - Leave a Public Review
25. Malahat / Finlayson Arm / Malahat Ridge (Shawnigan Lake, 19km) 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, 19km) - Leave a Public Review
  27. Shawnigan (Shawnigan Lake, 19km) - Leave a Public Review
  28. Strathcona Lodge (Shawnigan Lake, 19km) - Leave a Public Review
  29. West Shawnigan Lake Park (Shawnigan Lake, 19km) - Leave a Public Review
  30. Highlands (District) (Highlands, 15km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (250) 474-1773 - Leave a Public Review
  31. Metchosin (District) (Metchosin, 18km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (250) 474-3167 - Leave a Public Review
  32. Braemar Heights (Langford, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
33. Happy Valley (Langford, 16km) 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.
  34. Langford (City) (Langford, 16km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (250) 478-7882 - Leave a Public Review
35. Albert Head (Colwood, 18km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Albert Head - After Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria.
  36. Beaver Lake (Colwood, 18km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
37. 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.
  38. Glen Lake (Colwood, 18km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  39. Luxton (Colwood, 18km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review