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Mesachie Lake (Vancouver Island)
1. Honeymoon Bay / Mount Hooper Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Honeymoon Bay - Many years ago a young bachelor lived on this bay. Tired of the loneliness of his life, he announced that he was going back to England to get a bride.
2. Mesachie Lake Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Mesachie Lake - The Chinook jargon word meaning 'bad' or 'evil.'
  3. Caycuse (Honeymoon Bay, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  4. Gordon Bay Park (Honeymoon Bay, 4km) - Leave a Public Review
  5. Gordon River (Honeymoon Bay, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
6. Youbou (Honeymoon Bay, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Youbou - Not an Indian word but a compound of the names of two officers of the Empire Lumber Company in 1914 — Yount, the general manager, and Bouten, the president of the company.
  7. Bright Land District (Lake Cowichan, 5km) - Leave a Public Review
  8. Chemainus River Park (Lake Cowichan, 5km) - Leave a Public Review
9. Comiaken Land District (Lake Cowichan, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
From Comiaken Hill, comiaken being a Cowichan Indian word probably meaning 'bare, or void of vegetation.'
10. Cowichan Lake (Lake Cowichan, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
From an Island Halkomelem word meaning 'warm country' or 'land warmed by the sun.'
  11. Cowichan River Park (Lake Cowichan, 5km) - Leave a Public Review
12. Lake Cowichan (District) / Meade Creek / Skutz Falls (Lake Cowichan, 5km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (250) 749-6681 - Leave a Public Review
Meade Creek - After Robert Meade, an English 'remittance man' who arrived in the district about 1895. He retained all the graces of a highly educated Englishman and owned the only dress suit in the area.
  13. Seymour Land District (Lake Cowichan, 5km) - Leave a Public Review
14. Shawnigan Lake / Memory Island Park (Lake Cowichan, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Memory Island Park - A memorial to two Victoria men, Allan Mayhew and Kenneth Scharff, who lost their lives in World War II.
  15. Skutz 7 (Lake Cowichan, 5km) - Leave a Public Review
  16. Skutz 8 (Lake Cowichan, 5km) - Leave a Public Review
  17. Chuchummisapo 15 (Youbou, 8km) - Leave a Public Review
  18. Cowichan Lake Land District (Youbou, 8km) - Leave a Public Review
  19. Haley Lake Ecological Reserve (Youbou, 8km) - Leave a Public Review
  20. Honeymoon Bay Ecological Reserve (Youbou, 8km) - Leave a Public Review
  21. Malachan 11 (Youbou, 8km) - Leave a Public Review
  22. Nitinat River Park (Youbou, 8km) - Leave a Public Review
  23. Saouk 16 (Youbou, 8km) - Leave a Public Review
  24. Wokitsas 14 (Youbou, 8km) - Leave a Public Review