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Entrance to the Butchart Gardens Butchart Garden in Canada 2024. Robert Pim Butchart (1856–1943) began manufacturing Portland cement in 1888 near his birthplace of Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada. He and his wife Jennie Butchart (1866–1950) came to the west coast of Canada because of rich limestone deposits necessary for cement production.
Brentwood Bay is a small village in the municipality of Central Saanich, on the Saanich Peninsula in British Columbia, Canada.It lies north of the city of Victoria, east of the community of Willis Point, and south of the town of Sidney.
The lake is the headwaters for the watershed, which eventually feeds the world class Butchart Gardens. Named after Thomas and Richard Maltby, original owners of West part of Sec. 118 Lake District; Crown Grant 3882/3." Paid $22.00 in full for 22 acres September 22, 1873. Old name Highland Lake.
Internationally known gardens, including remarkable Sunken Garden in a former limestone quarry; unique combination of 3 aspects of Canadian gardening history: early 20th-century estate garden, early twentieth century beautification movement, and the Victorian bedding out system Chee Kung Tong Building [16] 1877 (completed) 2008 Barkerville
Oshawa Valley Botanical Gardens, Oshawa [8] Ottawa Valley Native Plant Botanical Garden, Cobden [9] Parkwood, The R.S. McLaughlin Estate National Historic Site and Heritage Garden, Oshawa; Plant Paradise Country Gardens, Caledon [10] Quinte Botanical Garden, Frankford, Ontario; Royal Botanical Gardens, Burlington; Sifton Bog, London
About 17 km (11 mi) north of Saanich core is Butchart Gardens, a botanical garden and National Historic Site. CFB Esquimalt navy base, in the adjacent municipality of Esquimalt, has a base museum dedicated to naval and military history, in the Naden part of the base.
Central Saanich is a district municipality in Greater Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, and a member municipality of the Capital Regional District. It is located on the Saanich Peninsula, in the far south-east of Vancouver Island. It is the traditional territory of the W̱SÁNEĆ people.
For the next decade Sturtevant’s practice flourished. A recommendation from architect Carl Gould lead to Sturtevant’s design for the New Rose Garden [6] at Butchart Gardens, in Victoria, British Columbia from 1928 to 1930; and a courtyard garden at the Children’s Orthopedic Hospital, [7] in Seattle from 1930 to 1931, (no longer extant).