Butchart Cove

Butchart Cove (48˚34'00" 123˚28'00" E side of Tod Inlet, W side of Saanich Inlet, NW of Victoria). Butchart, adopted as a well-established local name in 1981, commemorates the adjacent Butchart Gardens, which were named for cement tycoon Robert Pim Butchart (1856–1943) and his wife, Jeanette Foster Kennedy Butchart (1868–1950), both from Ont. The Butcharts came to BC in 1903, and Robert, who had cement interests across N America, established a plant at Tod Inlet; during WWI he also ran...

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