Quarry Bay

Quarry Bay (48˚34'00" 123˚31'00" Between Sheppard Point and McCurdy Point, W side of Saanich Inlet, NW of Victoria). The Bamberton cement plant and limestone quarries were established just N of here in 1912 by the Portland Cement Construction Co. The operation was shut down in 1916, when home building slowed because of WWI. In 1919 the company merged with the BC Cement Co, founded in 1904 by Robert Butchart on the E side of Saanich Inlet. Quarry Lk, just E of Tod Inlet, was named for the...

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