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The Butchart Gardens is a group of floral display gardens in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia, Canada, located near Victoria on Vancouver Island. The gardens receive over a million visitors each year. The gardens have been designated a National Historic Site of Canada. [1]
Brentwood Bay is part of the District of Central Saanich (pop. 17,385 [2]), one of the 13 municipalities that make up the Greater Victoria area (pop. 397,237 [3]). It is located on Highway 17A just west of Highway 17 (known locally as the "Pat Bay Highway"), the main route running the length of the Saanich Peninsula.
Butchart Gardens, Victoria; Crown Forest Industries Arboretum and Museum, Ladysmith; Darts Hill Garden Park, Surrey; Horticulture Centre of the Pacific, Victoria; Nitobe Memorial Garden, Vancouver; Park and Tilford Gardens, North Vancouver; Queen Elizabeth Park and Bloedel Floral Conservatory, Vancouver; Royal Roads University Botanical Gardens ...
Highway 17A was used as the primary access to the famous Butchart Gardens, as well as the ferry across the Saanich Inlet, used to bypass the Malahat Drive. The highway was first designated 17A in 1962, and lost its designation on 15 May 1998 after its component routes were devolved. [2] Highway 17A's total length was 27 km (17 mi).
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.
Pages in category "Gardens in Canada" ... Butchart Gardens; C. Château Ramezay; ... Victoria Butterfly Gardens
North of the city on the Saanich Peninsula are the marine biology Shaw Ocean Discovery Centre, Butchart Gardens in Brentwood Bay, one of the biggest tourist and local resident attractions on Vancouver Island, as well as the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, part of the National Research Council of Canada, Victoria Butterfly Gardens and Centre ...
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