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Greater Victoria is located in British Columbia, Canada, on the southern tip of Vancouver Island. It is usually defined as the thirteen municipalities of the Capital Regional District (CRD) on Vancouver Island as well as some adjacent areas and nearby islands.
The Land Conservancy of British Columbia is a not-for-profit, charitable land trust based in British Columbia, Canada.
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East Sooke is an unincorporated community south and east of Sooke, British Columbia, Canada. It consists of over 500 houses along with the headquarters of the Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue (RCMSAR) organization on the south side of the Sooke Basin. East Sooke borders on East Sooke Regional Park, an area of 14.3394 square kilometres, with views south to Olympic National Park in the United States.
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Sooke Potholes may refer to:
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The Goldstream Powerhouse is a decommissioned hydroelectric plant located near Goldstream Provincial Park in Langford, near Victoria, British Columbia. This plant provided electricity to Victoria for 60 years and is one of the little-known and ingenious chapters in the history of Victoria. This plant was one of the first hydro plants of this type on the west coast of North America. The structure is over a century old and is unsafe to inhabit. It is within the boundaries of the watershed lands owned by the CRD and is inaccessible to the public due to its proximity to a drinking water reservoir.
The water supply system for Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, now operated by the Capital Regional District (CRD), served in 2010 over 330,000 people with clean drinking water from a catchment area of 11,025 hectares centered on its main reservoir at Sooke Lake. The CRD’s ownership and complete control of its entire watershed assures its customers of a supply that is secure in both quantity and quality. The main reservoir and its subsidiary reservoirs are estimated to contain 93 billion litres of water, enough to meet the needs of its customers for two years without any rainfall. The history of this remarkable system is sketched below.
The Sea to Sea Green Blue Belt is a 62 kilometre long greenbelt surrounding the Greater Victoria metropolitan area in Canada. The greenbelt includes green space, forests, farms, and wetlands stretching from Sooke to Salt Spring Island. It also includes the "blue spaces" of Sooke Basin and Saanich Inlet.
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- ↑ Capital Regional District (CRD), 2010. Ayum Creek, Kapoor, Sea-to-Sea, Sooke Potholes. Regional Parks Management Plans.
- ↑ CRD, 2016. Sooke Potholes Regional Park, Spring Salmon Place Campground (KWL-UCHUN).
- ↑ "Sooke Potholes". The Land Conservancy. Retrieved 23 Dec 2019.
- ↑ Peers, Elida (22 Aug 2012). "Deertrail Resort — a ruins or a lost dream?". Sooke News Mirror. Retrieved 23 Dec 2019.
- ↑ "Abandoned Deertrail Resort". Atlas Obscura.
