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Shawnigan Focus
Jan 4, 20242 min read
The Shawnigan Cemetery
(from the Shawnigan Focus , October 2021) Excerpt from the Community Crier, September 1981 On January 12, 1948, representatives from the...
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Brownie Gibson
Jan 3, 20243 min read
The Summer Colony
(from Green Branches & Fallen Leaves) An integral and important part of the history of Shawnigan Lake, and one that is important to its...
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Lori Treloar
Jan 3, 20242 min read
The Shawnigan Beach Hotel
Around the turn of the 20th century, there was an influx of retired British Army Colonels at Shawnigan Lake. These twenty (or so) men had...
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Lori Treloar
Dec 22, 20232 min read
Christmas at Shawnigan Lake
Christmas has always been a special occasion for the residents of Shawnigan Lake. In 1900, the Koenig Hotel on the village waterfront...
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Brownie Gibson
Dec 17, 20232 min read
Logging Operations – Looking Back
by Brownie Gibson, from Green Branches and Fallen Leaves The most colourful facet of the whole timber industry at Shawnigan involved the...
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Shawnigan Lake Museum
Dec 10, 20234 min read
Bruce Hutchison
BRUCE HUTCHISON (who died on September 14, 1992, aged 91) enjoyed such eminence as a journalist that he conducted editorial policy for...
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Ceres
Dec 3, 20232 min read
Shawnigan Farmer Proves Hay Tripod Method
(from Victoria Daily Times, July 5, 1941) by Ceres Hay curing by the wooden tripod method is becoming more popular with British Columbia...
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Lori Treloar
Dec 1, 20231 min read
Press Release
Media contact: Lori Treloar, Executive Director Shawnigan Lake Museum museum@shawniganlakemuseum.com 250-743-8675 For immediate release:...
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Shawnigan Lake Museum
Dec 1, 20231 min read
Dundas Road
Major Thomas George Dundas was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on May 14, 1853. He and his wife (Mary) and three children emigrated to Canada...
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Robert Lawson
Nov 23, 20232 min read
The Boat at Flemming Cabin c1920
This lovely photo evokes a lost age of peace and serenity on the waterfront. The two boats in the waterfront are 12 foot and 14 foot...
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Brownie Gibson
Nov 17, 20232 min read
The Shawnigan Lake Volunteer Fire Department – The Early Days
Although the tales of the old days are colourful, probably no one would like to accept all the primitive facilities that they took for...
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NP Dougan
Nov 12, 20237 min read
Fabled Lost Silver Mine on the Banks of the Koksilah
From the Cowichan Leader, Duncan, December 1, 1955. p. 4. By N.P. Dougan From Shawnigan Lake Village via Renfrew Road, it is eight miles...
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Shawnigan Lake Museum
Nov 4, 20233 min read
The Ambassador of Shawnigan Lake
1950 article from unknown local newspaper) The Shawnigan Lake district of southern Vancouver Island is famous for its beauty and Bobby...
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Lori Treloar
Nov 2, 20232 min read
Malahat Drive
by Lori Treloar Prior to the Malahat highway there were two land routes to the Cowichan Valley. The first, known as the Goldstream Trail,...
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Lori Treloar
Oct 27, 20232 min read
A Library at Shawnigan Lake
by Lori Treloar Early records indicate that the Women’s Institute ran a library at Shawnigan Lake for a short time in 1919 but there is...
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Lori Treloar
Oct 23, 20232 min read
Community
The non-mill residents worked as diligently as their mill partners to provide the organization necessary for a strong community. Almost...
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Lori Treloar
Oct 18, 20232 min read
A Goldrush of Our Very Own
by Lori Treloar Many of the people who came to British Columbia, late in the 19th century, did so because they thought that they could...
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Brownie Gibson
Oct 13, 20232 min read
1892 - Settling on Shawnigan Lake
“My father, Richard Beauchamp Halhed, had lived for some years in New Zealand, where my two brothers and I were born. He then returned...
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Lori Treloar
Oct 10, 20232 min read
William Losee
by Lori Treloar Have you ever wondered about the street names in our community? Losee Road is a short road that runs south off Baldy...
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Shawnigan Lake Museum
Oct 5, 202310 min read
Early Pioneers
(As told by George V Copley) December 31, 1968) A short recital (to about the year 1900) of some of the early pioneers of Mill Bay,...
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