Quick Search
ruralroutes.com and ruralroutes.ca thank all of their supporters for 25 years of success!
The concept of rural tourism involves agri, eco, cultural, adventure, community based, historical, wine, rural craft, festival, bird-watching, photography, educational, sports, campsite, etc.This turn-key database is the perfect home based business for anyone that wants to escape the urban rat race. Talk to us.
Read about buying this website as the owner is retiring.
Quick Search
|
1. Satellite Channel Ecological Reserve
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. |
|
2. Sidney (Town) / Coles Bay / Gooch Island / Patricia Bay / Piers Island / Portland Island / Roberts Point
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. |
|
3. Swartz Bay
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. |
| 4. Deep Cove
Your Host(s): Canada Post
- Leave a Public Review
|
|
| 5. Cole Bay 3 (North Saanich, 3km)
- Leave a Public Review
|
|
| 6. North Saanich (District) (North Saanich, 3km)
Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (250) 656-0781
- Leave a Public Review
|
|
| 7. North Saanich Land District (North Saanich, 3km)
- Leave a Public Review
|
|
| 8. Refuge d'oiseaux de Shoal-Harbour (North Saanich, 3km)
- Leave a Public Review
|
|
| 9. Shoal Harbour Bird Sanctuary (North Saanich, 3km)
- Leave a Public Review
|
|
| 10. Union Bay 4 (North Saanich, 3km)
- Leave a Public Review
|
|
| 11. Central Saanich (District) (Central Saanich, 6km)
Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (250) 652-4444
- Leave a Public Review
|
|
|
12. Senanus Island 10 (Brentwood Bay, 8km)
Your Host(s): Canada Post
- Leave a Public Review
Senanus Island - ). A Saanich (Straits salish) Indian word meaning 'chest' (of a person). |
| 13. South Saanich 1 (Brentwood Bay, 8km)
- Leave a Public Review
|
|
| 14. Arbutus Ridge (Mill Bay, 11km)
Your Host(s): Canada Post
- Leave a Public Review
|
|
| 15. Bamberton Park (Mill Bay, 11km)
- Leave a Public Review
|
|
| 16. Malahat 11 (Mill Bay, 11km)
- Leave a Public Review
|
|
|
17. Mill Bay (Mill Bay, 11km)
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. |
|
18. Bedwell Harbour (Pender Island, 17km)
Your Host(s): Canada Post
- Leave a Public Review
After Edward Parker Bedwell, second master on HMS Plumper (1857-60). He was promoted to master in 1860 and subsequently served on HMS Hecate. |
| 19. Gulf Islands National Park Reserve of Canada (Pender Island, 17km)
- Leave a Public Review
|
|
| 20. Hope Bay (Pender Island, 17km)
- Leave a Public Review
|
|
| 21. Otter Bay (Pender Island, 17km)
- Leave a Public Review
|
|
|
22. Pender Island / Hope Bay (Pender Island, 17km)
Your Host(s): Canada Post
- Leave a Public Review
Hope Bay - After Rutherford Hope, who settled on the island around 1880. |
| 23. Pender Island 8 (Pender Island, 17km)
- Leave a Public Review
|
|
|
24. Port Washington (Pender Island, 17km)
Your Host(s): Canada Post
- Leave a Public Review
Port Washington - After Washington Grimmer (1851-1930), a native of London, England, who was the first postmaster on the island. |
| 25. Réserve de parc national du Canada des Îles-Gulf (Pender Island, 17km)
- Leave a Public Review
|
|
|
26. Thetis Island (Pender Island, 17km)
Your Host(s): Canada Post
- Leave a Public Review
Thetis Island - After HMS Thetis, a thirty-sixgun frigate on the Pacific Station 1851-3. Several features in Esquimalt harbour are named after the ship, as is, presumably, Thetis Lake near Victoria. (See also Kuper Island.) |
|
27. Bamberton (Malahat, 17km)
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. |
| 28. Leechtown (Malahat, 17km)
Your Host(s): Canada Post
- Leave a Public Review
|
|
| 29. Malahat (Malahat, 17km)
Your Host(s): Canada Post
- Leave a Public Review
|
|
|
30. Cobble Hill / Koksilah River (Cobble Hill, 15km)
Your Host(s): Canada Post
- Leave a Public Review
There are no cobblestones on Cobble Hill, the formation here being of limestone. |
| 31. Est-patrolas 4 (Cobble Hill, 15km)
- Leave a Public Review
|
|
| 32. Hatch Point 12 (Cobble Hill, 15km)
- Leave a Public Review
|
|
| 33. Shawnigan Land District (Cobble Hill, 15km)
- Leave a Public Review
|
|
| 34. Cliffside (Shawnigan Lake, 17km)
- Leave a Public Review
|
|
| 35. Helmcken Land District (Shawnigan Lake, 17km)
- Leave a Public Review
|
|
| 36. Koksilah River Park (Shawnigan Lake, 17km)
- Leave a Public Review
|
|
|
37. Malahat / Finlayson Arm / Malahat Ridge (Shawnigan Lake, 17km)
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. |
| 38. Memory Island Park (Shawnigan Lake, 17km)
- Leave a Public Review
|
|
| 39. Shawnigan (Shawnigan Lake, 17km)
- Leave a Public Review
|
|
| 40. Strathcona Lodge (Shawnigan Lake, 17km)
- Leave a Public Review
|