Brentwood Bay

Brentwood Bay (48˚35'00" 123˚28'00" E side of Saanich Inlet, NW of Victoria). When the BC Electric Rwy’s Saanich line was completed in 1913, the interurban station (and powerhouse) here was named Brentwood, after the Essex, UK, town where Robert M Horne-Payne, chairman of the railway’s board of directors, had just built a lavish country house called Merrymeade. Before that time, this part of Saanich was known as Sluggett Bay, after John Sluggett, who settled in the area in the 1870s and...

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