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Munsie Road
Meet William McGillivray Munsie, a true Nova Scotian entrepreneur! Born in Pictou in 1849, he started his career as a pattern-maker. In...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
Mar 152 min read
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Armstrong Road
by Lori Treloar On some Shawnigan Lake maps, Armstrong Road is included. It runs East – West from the lake on the north end of the West...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
Feb 242 min read
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Halhed Road
by Lori Treloar You will not find Halhed Road on a current Shawnigan Lake map but it was one of the first roads named in the area. Halhed...
Lori Treloar
Feb 192 min read
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Shawnigan Lake Famous Health Resort
February 1, 1930 Victoria Daily Times Two Private Schools Draw Notice to Beautiful Area Shawnigan Lake, about twenty-eight miles from...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
Feb 137 min read
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THE HEAT OF A VILLAGE OUTWARMS A HEARTLESS BLAZE
February 7, 1976 Victoria Daily Times A Column by Max Low It was quite a simple notice, really. And yet there was one word that roused a...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
Jan 294 min read
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Joan Austen-Leigh
Times-Colonist June 3, 2001 By May Brown When Joan Mason Hurley set out to write her latest novel, Invitation to the Party , she had...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
Jan 225 min read
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May 1888 – BC Championship Sculling at Shawnigan Lake
Victoria Daily Times May 4, 1888 SCULLING MATTERS. Paine and Ball H. J. Ball, of Vancouver, arrived on Wednesday night and...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
Jan 214 min read
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When the E&N Was for People
There are people for, and people against, the idea of restoring service on the E&N Rail line. If you are in your later years, and grew up...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
Jan 154 min read
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Shawnigan Schools, Hotels and Stores
SHAWNIGAN SCHOOLS 1893 – The first Shawnigan School, originally called Malahat School, was built on the site of the present day Catholic...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
Jan 33 min read
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SETTLERS CLEARING THE LAND
The first job of the settler was to clear the land so that a house could be built and crops planted. This was an arduous task in the...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
Jan 35 min read
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Industry
1889 – The Shawnigan Lake Lumber Company was founded by William Lossee. He had worked as a master mechanic for the E & N railway. As he...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
Jan 33 min read
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Making the Old Hall Hot
By Garth Harvey , longtime Shawnigan resident; Museum, Family Caregivers and community supporter and all around great guy. It was about...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
Dec 13, 20244 min read
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The Way to Make Angels
ON THE TIMES - By Art Stott Victoria Daily Times February 4, 1958 Ed note: Art Stott drove the Malahat many times from Victoria to his...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
Nov 23, 20243 min read
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ELECTRIC CO.'S PLANS
October 6, 1904 An Article in the Daily Colonist Read carefully - this one is a doozy! More About Scheme to Erect Big Power Works on...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
Nov 17, 20242 min read
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The S.S. Shawnigan
The steam tugboat “Shawnigan” was built at the Shawnigan Lake Lumber Co. sawmill to replace the old and leaky tugboat “Lady of the Lake”....
Lori Treloar
Oct 24, 20242 min read
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Like a Footprint in the Dust - Cliffside Store
ON THE TIMES Victoria Daily Times TUESDAY, AUG. 2, 1960 Column by Art Stott The little green Cliffside store and post office is...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
Oct 3, 20243 min read
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George S. Gibson: Shawnigan Lake’s forgotten carver
By Emery Sanderson, Summer Student, Shawnigan Lake Museum One of Vancouver Island’s most prolific woodcarvers remains largely a mystery...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
Oct 3, 20243 min read
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Truth and Reconciliation Day
(from My Cowichan Valley Now, Sept 2023) Truth and Reconciliation Day is a time to remember the residential school survivors, and their...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
Sep 23, 20242 min read
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The Great Fire of 1930
(with files from “Green Branches and Fallen Leaves”, Vancouver Sun, Victoria Daily Times) As often happens in a small community,...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
Sep 12, 20243 min read
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It’s heaven for railway buffs, a nostalgic hike along the long-abandoned grade of the Shawnigan Lake Lumber Company.
Line on the Past Island Outing from the Islander September 13, 1998 By Ian Baird and Peter Smith As Victoria’s Galloping Goose has...
Shawnigan Lake Museum
Sep 10, 20244 min read
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