Glencoe Cove

Glencoe Cove (48˚29'00" 123˚18'00" S of Gordon Head, Saanich Peninsula, just NE of Victoria). The cove was an ancient Lekwungen First Nation village site. In 1912, Victoria businessman Keith Wilson acquired the surrounding 5-ha property and named it Glencoe. Forty years and several owners later it was subdivided for residential development by Geoffrey Vantreight (see Vantreight Cove). Residents still sometimes refer to the area as the Glencoe estate (and, rarely, as Codfish Cove). The name...

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