Oak Bay (Vancouver Island, V8R 1G2)
1. Oak Bay (District) / Chatham Islands Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (250) 598-3311 - Leave a Public Review
Chatham Islands named after HMS Chatham, an armed tender of 135 tons, carrying four three-pounder cannons and six swivel guns, the consort of HMS Discovery during Captain Vancouver's expedition of 1791-5. Not named by Vancouver.
  2. Refuge d'oiseaux du havre de Victoria - Leave a Public Review
  3. Victoria Harbour Bird Sanctuary - Leave a Public Review
  4. Anaqtl'a (Victoria, 3km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  5. Bear Mountain (Victoria, 3km) - Leave a Public Review
  6. Belmont Park (Victoria, 3km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
7. Cadboro Bay / Jemmy Jones Island (Victoria, 3km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
After the HBC'S brigantine Cadboro, the first ship to anchor here. Built at Rye in England in 1824, she took her name from nearby Cadborough, a village that no longer exists in consequence of the silting in of Cadborough Bay.
  8. Chatham Islands 4 (Victoria, 3km) - Leave a Public Review
9. Colquitz / Colquitz River / Portage Inlet (Victoria, 3km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Colquitz from the Straits Salish word meaning 'waterfall.'
10. Cordova Bay (Victoria, 3km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
In 1790 Sublieutenant Manuel Quimper of the Spanish Navy gave Esquimalt Harbour the name of Puerto de Cordova, in honour of the forty-sixth Viceroy of New Spain.
  11. Discovery Island 3 (Victoria, 3km) - Leave a Public Review
  12. Discovery Island Marine Park (Victoria, 3km) - Leave a Public Review
  13. Dunsmuir (Victoria, 3km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
14. Esquimalt / Constance Cove / Duntze Head (Victoria, 3km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Constance Cove after HMS Constance, which in 1848 became the first Royal Navy ship to use Esquimalt as her base.
  15. Esquimalt Lagoon Bird Sanctuary (Victoria, 3km) - Leave a Public Review
  16. Esquimalt Land District (Victoria, 3km) - Leave a Public Review
17. Fairfield / Clover Point (Victoria, 3km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
James Douglas appears to have landed here from SS Beaver in March 1843 when he arrived to found Fort Victoria. Douglas himself gave the point this name because he found an abundance of red clover growing here.
  18. Fernwood (Victoria, 3km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  19. Fisgard Lighthouse National Historic Site of Canada (Victoria, 3km) - Leave a Public Review
  20. Fort Rodd Hill National Historic Site of Canada (Victoria, 3km) - Leave a Public Review
  21. Goldstream (Victoria, 3km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  22. Goldstream 13 (Victoria, 3km) - Leave a Public Review
  23. Goldstream Land District (Victoria, 3km) - Leave a Public Review
  24. Goldstream Park (Victoria, 3km) - Leave a Public Review
25. Gordon Head (Victoria, 3km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
After Captain the Hon. John Gordon, commanding HMS America when she was in the North Pacific in 1845.
  26. Gowlland Tod Park (Victoria, 3km) - Leave a Public Review
  27. Halkett Island 2 (Victoria, 3km) - Leave a Public Review
  28. Highland Land District (Victoria, 3km) - Leave a Public Review
29. James Bay / Brotchie Ledge (Victoria, 3km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
After Captain William Brotchie (17991859), captain of various HBC ships. He was in command of the barque Albion in 1849 when she struck this ledge, previously known as Buoy Rock.
  30. Lake Hill (Victoria, 3km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  31. Lake Land District (Victoria, 3km) - Leave a Public Review
  32. Lieu historique national du Canada du Fort Rodd Hill (Victoria, 3km) - Leave a Public Review
  33. Lieu historique national du Canada du Phare-de-Fisgard (Victoria, 3km) - Leave a Public Review
  34. Marigold (Victoria, 3km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  35. Metchosin Land District (Victoria, 3km) - Leave a Public Review
  36. Millstream (Victoria, 3km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  37. Mud Bay (Victoria, 3km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  38. New Songhees 1A (Victoria, 3km) - Leave a Public Review
  39. Oak Bay Islands Ecological Reserve (Victoria, 3km) - Leave a Public Review
  40. Palmer (Victoria, 3km) - Leave a Public Review