McKenzie Bight

McKenzie Bight (48˚33'00" 123˚30'00" SE side of Saanich Inlet, NW of Victoria). Named in 1934 after Alexander Murray McKenzie (1852–1935), a native of Pictou, NS, who worked in the coal mines on Newcastle I near Nanaimo. He first came to Saanich in 1873 but then joined the gold rush to the Cassiar district and afterwards worked on survey parties for the CPR, seeking routes through the Rocky Mtns. He bought land in Saanich and married Helen Thomson (b 1863) at Victoria in 1880. She also was...

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