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Keally Damelart Green Space

August 2, 2021 ~ Healthy Naturalist ~ Leave a comment

Keally Damelart Green Space is in the municipality of Central Saanich, one of the thirteen which form the Capital Regional District of British Columbia. Located on the Saanich Peninsula of Vancouver Island, this green space provides a pedestrian walkway between Keally Lane and Damelart Way. This is a good stroll to make with less ferry … Continue reading Keally Damelart Green Space

Caldwell Haywood Grant Green Space

October 5, 2019October 5, 2019 ~ Healthy Naturalist ~ Leave a comment

Caldwell Haywood Grant Green Space is in the seaside community of Sooke, one of thirteen communities that form the Capital Regional District of British Columbia. This green space hosts a rough gravel footpath that connects the end of Caldwell Road to Grant Road West with a junction that connects to Haywood Road. The green space … Continue reading Caldwell Haywood Grant Green Space

Ed MacGregor Park

October 2, 2019October 4, 2019 ~ Healthy Naturalist ~ Leave a comment

Ed MacGregor Park is in the seaside community of Sooke, one of thirteen communities that form the Capital Regional District of British Columbia. Formally Harbor Park, this three quarters of a hectare park is located on the left past the streetlight along West Coast Road. The park was renamed Ed MacGregor Park to honor the … Continue reading Ed MacGregor Park

Arranwood Park

September 2, 2019August 31, 2019 ~ Healthy Naturalist ~ Leave a comment

  Arranwood Park is in the seaside community of Sooke, one of thirteen communities that form the Capital Regional District of British Columbia. This park has a walkway that connects with both Felderhof Park and with the parks along Callumwood Lane. The name of the park commemorates, perhaps, the Isle of Arran, Scotland. The footpath … Continue reading Arranwood Park

Helgesen Park

August 31, 2019August 31, 2019 ~ Healthy Naturalist ~ Leave a comment

  Helgesen Park is in the seaside community of Sooke, one of thirteen communities that form the Capital Regional District of British Columbia. This small park has a rough walkway to Felderhof Road. The park is mostly grass covered with a few trees. Both the road and parkland are named for Christian Helgesen, an entrepreneur … Continue reading Helgesen Park

Sooke River Road Park

July 3, 2019July 3, 2019 ~ Healthy Naturalist ~ Leave a comment

Illustration by D.L. MacPhail Sooke River Road Park is in the seaside community of Sooke, one of thirteen communities that form the Capital Regional District of British Columbia. The linear park has an eight hundred and twenty three meter trail along Sooke River Road in the Milnes Landing area of Sooke. This trail is the … Continue reading Sooke River Road Park

Hansen Park

June 27, 2019June 26, 2019 ~ Healthy Naturalist ~ Leave a comment

Hansen Park is in the community of Langford, one of thirteen communities that form the Capital Regional District of British Columbia. This park is a small wetland area in the Thetis Heights neighborhood of Langford, B.C. The western side of the park has steep slopes while a small shallow aerated lake, Hansen Lake, takes up … Continue reading Hansen Park

Goldie Park

June 20, 2019June 18, 2019 ~ Healthy Naturalist ~ Leave a comment

Goldie Park is in the Thetis Heights neighborhood of Langford, B.C. Langford is one of thirteen communities that form the Capital Regional District of British Columbia. The park is about half a hectare in size with a playground that was built with support from the Kinsmen Club in the year two thousand. The play area … Continue reading Goldie Park

Grenville Green Space

July 15, 2018August 6, 2018 ~ Healthy Naturalist ~ Leave a comment

Grenville Green Space is in the seaside community of Esquimalt, one of thirteen communities in the Capital Regional District of British Columbia. This green space has a couple of small Garry oak Quercus garryana trees and large grass covered area.  There is a gravel pathway that connects to trails between Woodway Road and Rockcrest Avenue. … Continue reading Grenville Green Space

Graceland Green Space

November 12, 2016 ~ Healthy Naturalist ~ Leave a comment

  Graceland Green Space is in the District of Metchosin, a coastal community in the Capital Regional District of British Columbia. The footpath from the end of Graceland Drive leads about one hundred meters to Gilbert Drive. The forest around this footpath has been mostly cleared of undergrowth. A few snow berry and ocean spray … Continue reading Graceland Green Space

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  • Parker Park (Sayward Beach)
  • Fenn Road Beach
  • Cordova Bay Elementary School Green Space
  • Beckton Park
  • Sayward Hill Park
  • Lochside Park
  • Fowler Park
  • Glendale Trail and Green Space
  • Camosun College Interurban Campus Green Spaces
  • Layritz Park
  • Saanich Commonwealth Place Park
  • Normandy Park
  • Royal Oak Middle School Green Space
  • Quick’s Bottom Park Arboretum
  • Thomas Francis/ Freeman King Regional Park

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