Rural Routes British Columbia

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Victoria (Vancouver Island, V8W 1P6)

	1. Cadboro Bay / Jemmy Jones Island 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.
	2. Colquitz / Colquitz River / Portage Inlet Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review Colquitz from the Straits Salish word meaning 'waterfall.'
	3. Cordova Bay 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.
	4. Esquimalt / Constance Cove / Duntze Head 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.
	5. Fairfield / Clover Point 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.
	6. Gordon Head 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.
	7. James Bay / Brotchie Ledge 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.
	8. Victoria (City) (Origin of name British Columbia) / Craigflower / Mount Douglas / Elk Lake / Point Ellice Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (250) 385-5711 - Leave a Public Review The British were first aware of this part of the world as a northward extension of Sir Francis Drake's 'New Albion' (California and Oregon).
	9. Victoria Land District / Miniskirt / New Caledonia (Historical) / Observatory Hill / Ogden Point Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review Miniskirt - Nearby Skirt Mountain (originally Skirt Hill) was named as early as 1858.
	10. Anaqtl'a Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
	11. Bear Mountain - Leave a Public Review
	12. Belmont Park Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
	13. Chatham Islands 4 - Leave a Public Review
	14. Discovery Island 3 - Leave a Public Review
	15. Discovery Island Marine Park - Leave a Public Review
	16. Dunsmuir Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
	17. Esquimalt Lagoon Bird Sanctuary - Leave a Public Review
	18. Esquimalt Land District - Leave a Public Review
	19. Fernwood Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
	20. Fisgard Lighthouse National Historic Site of Canada - Leave a Public Review
	21. Fort Rodd Hill National Historic Site of Canada - Leave a Public Review
	22. Goldstream Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
	23. Goldstream 13 - Leave a Public Review
	24. Goldstream Land District - Leave a Public Review
	25. Goldstream Park - Leave a Public Review
	26. Gowlland Tod Park - Leave a Public Review
	27. Halkett Island 2 - Leave a Public Review
	28. Highland Land District - Leave a Public Review
	29. Lake Hill Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
	30. Lake Land District - Leave a Public Review
	31. Lieu historique national du Canada du Fort Rodd Hill - Leave a Public Review
	32. Lieu historique national du Canada du Phare-de-Fisgard - Leave a Public Review
	33. Marigold Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
	34. Metchosin Land District - Leave a Public Review
	35. Millstream Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
	36. Mud Bay Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
	37. New Songhees 1A - Leave a Public Review
	38. Oak Bay Islands Ecological Reserve - Leave a Public Review
	39. Palmer - Leave a Public Review
	40. Prospect Lake Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
	41. Refuge d'oiseaux d'Esquimalt-Lagoon - Leave a Public Review
	42. Royal Oak Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
	43. Sevenoaks Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
	44. Sooke Mountain Park - Leave a Public Review
	45. Strawberry Vale Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
	46. Ten Mile Point Ecological Reserve - Leave a Public Review
	47. Tillicum Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
	48. Trial Islands Ecological Reserve - Leave a Public Review
	49. Twin Island 10 - Leave a Public Review
	50. Wellington Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review