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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.
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The brewery and gardens officially opened to the public for tours on June 1, 1959, as an admission-free facility with 250 attending the opening ceremony and around 1,000 attendees to Busch Gardens. [18] [19] Busch Gardens opened on 15-acre (6.1 ha) of land southwest of the brewery at the cost of around $500,000.
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 ...
As Robert Pim Butchart's forefathers came from the Montrose area of the East of Scotland there is no reason to think that there might be a French pronunciation to the surname 'Butchart'. The family, who emigrated from Scotland to Owen Sound, Ontario in the early 1800's, referred to the family name as Butch - as in butcher, and Art - as in art.
The Abkhazi Garden was created in Victoria, British Columbia, on Vancouver Island, in 1946 by Prince and Princess Abkhazi. [1] The garden is known as 'the garden that love built' and was developed by Prince Nicolas Abkhazi and Princess Marjorie ('Peggy') Abkhazi (born Marjorie Mable Jane Carter, later Marjorie Mable Jane Pemberton-Carter) over the decades that they owned the property on ...
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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).