1. Cowichan 1 (Duncan, 4km)
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2. Cowichan 9 (Duncan, 4km)
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3. Deerholme (Duncan, 4km)
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4. Duncan (City) / Quamichan Lake / Sansum Narrows / Waterloo Mountain (Duncan, 4km)
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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. |
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5. Eagle Heights (Duncan, 4km)
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6. Eves Park (Duncan, 4km)
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7. Hayward (Duncan, 4km)
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8. Hillbank (Duncan, 4km)
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9. Hillcrest (Duncan, 4km)
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10. Kakalatza 6 (Duncan, 4km)
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11. Koksilah (Duncan, 4km)
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12. Mount Tzuhalem Ecological Reserve (Duncan, 4km)
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13. Paldi (Duncan, 4km)
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Paldi - After a village in Punjab, India, birthplace of the Mayo brothers, who built a sawmill here. |
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14. Quamichan Land District (Duncan, 4km)
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15. Sahtlam (Duncan, 4km)
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Sahtlam - From the Island Halkomelem word meaning 'evergreen.' |
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16. Sahtlam Land District (Duncan, 4km)
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17. Somenos (Duncan, 4km)
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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. |
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18. Somenos Land District (Duncan, 4km)
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19. Tzart-lam 5 (Duncan, 4km)
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20. Tzouhalem (Duncan, 4km)
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21. Cowichan Bay / Tzouhalem Summit (Cowichan Bay, 6km)
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Tzouhalem Summit - Named after one of the fiercest of the war chiefs of the Cowichans. In 1844 he led an attack on Fort Victoria after the HBC tried to collect damages for cattle that his band had slain. |
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22. Cowichan Station (Cowichan Bay, 6km)
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23. Fairbridge (Cowichan Bay, 6km)
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24. Genoa Bay (Cowichan Bay, 6km)
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Genoa Bay - Since an Italian, Giovanni Baptiste Ordano, came here in 1858, it seems likely that Genoa Bay commemorates his birthplace. Later that year Ordano opened the first store in the district at Tzuhalem. |
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25. Kil-pah-las 3 (Cowichan Bay, 6km)
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26. Theik 2 (Cowichan Bay, 6km)
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27. North Cowichan (District) (North Cowichan, 7km)
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28. Crofton / Mount Richards (Crofton, 9km)
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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. |
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29. Maple Bay (Crofton, 9km)
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30. Osborn Bay (Crofton, 9km)
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Osborn Bay - After Captain (later Rear-Admiral) Sherard Osborn, RN (1822-75), Arctic explorer and author, who served with distinction in the Crimean War. |
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31. Cobble Hill / Koksilah River (Cobble Hill, 12km)
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There are no cobblestones on Cobble Hill, the formation here being of limestone. |
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32. Est-patrolas 4 (Cobble Hill, 12km)
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33. Hatch Point 12 (Cobble Hill, 12km)
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34. Shawnigan Land District (Cobble Hill, 12km)
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35. Cliffside (Shawnigan Lake, 14km)
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36. Helmcken Land District (Shawnigan Lake, 14km)
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37. Koksilah River Park (Shawnigan Lake, 14km)
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38. Malahat / Finlayson Arm / Malahat Ridge (Shawnigan Lake, 14km)
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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. |
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39. Memory Island Park (Shawnigan Lake, 14km)
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40. Shawnigan (Shawnigan Lake, 14km)
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