SAANICH

SAANICH

Is a district municipality, perched on Vancouver Island just north of Victoria, British Columbia’s capital city and part of Greater Victoria. Saanich’s history dates back to thousands of years ago when the Saanich First Nation arrived, but it was not until the 1840s that the Hudson’s Bay Company arrived in the process non-native settlement began. in 1852, Kenneth Mackenzie, who came over from Scotland on a boat and established farm for the Puget Sound Agriculture Company as well as the Craigflower School (formally known as Maple Point School), which is Western Canada’s oldest surviving school. Between the 1996 and 2001 censuses, Saanich has achieved a growth rate of 2.2% and is one of Vancouver Island’s most densely-populated communities with a rate of 1,002.2 people per square kilometer. Like most other communities near Victoria like Oak Bay and Langford, Saanich is mostly a residential suburb of Victoria and consists of many neighborhoods including Gordon Head, Ten Mile Point, Queenswood and Prospect Lake. Saanich was incorporated on March 1st of 1906 and relies mostly on tourism as its main economic benefactor and contributor.

SAANICH’S POPULATION: 108,265