Lime Bay

Lime Bay (48˚26'00" 123˚23'00" N side of Inner Hbr, Victoria Hbr, SE end of Vancouver I). Site of a kiln and primitive loading facility built in colonial times to provide growing Victoria with lime, an essential material used in the early days to make mortar and whitewash and improve acidic soils. The bay once was much larger, extending almost to the E&N tracks, but was gradually filled in between 1935 and the late 1950s.

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