Saanichton

SAANICHTON  () , 20 km north of VICTORIA in Central Saanich district municipality, is a former AGRICULTURAL settlement, now mostly residential, that grew up around a crossroads in the middle of the SAANICH PENINSULA. Henry Simpson farmed here in the late 1850s and built an early hotel. The village was served by both the VICTORIA & SIDNEY RWY and the BC ELECTRIC RWY CO with its INTERURBAN line, but Saanichton declined when bypassed to the...

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