Five acres dedicated to gardening and education! You can attend a horticulture class or stroll one of the twenty gardens, a popular garden is the winter garden, a must see.

Open daily, except Christmas Day
Summer 8am - 8pm
Winter 9am - 4pm

Western Canada’s oldest Maritime museum is located in an 1889 heritage building in historic Bastion Square.

Experience yesterday today as you travel back in time to the days of pirates, shipwrecks, exploration and discovery. See Tilikum, a dugout canoe that sailed from Victoria to England.

The tradition of High Tea goes back many years to the late 1700’s. In England at that time there were two main meals daily, Breakfast and Dinner. Dinner was served very late in the evening, so it was a very long time between meals. The Duchess of Bedford(1788-1861) complained about a "sinking feeling" in the late afternoon. Afternoon tea was her invention to keep her going until dinner. She would invite friends to join her for tea at 5p.m. Other hostesses quickly copied her idea.

Ghostly Walks are walking tours conducted every night from mid-June to mid-September and on weekends through the rest of the year, with additional tours in October. Ghost tours for booked groups may be arranged at any time. The tours have been developed by John Adams, one of Victoria’s foremost historians and storytellers, who has been leading ghost tours through the alleys and haunted places of Victoria since 1970. He has appeared on the TV series Ghosts and Ghoulies and on OLN’s Creepy Canada. The tours are conducted by John and his team of expert guides.

Butchart Family History - Robert and Jennie Click Here
The Butchart Gardens are located in Brentwood Bay, 21 km north of the capital city of Victoria and 20 km south of the Vancouver - Victoria ferry terminal at Swartz Bay.

Western Speedway, part of “All Fun Recreation Park”, is a 4/10-mile paved oval track and has been part of Victoria since 1954. Western Speedway, Western Canada’s oldest Speedway, has first class steel structured grandstand seating for 4,500 fans on the front straightaway and paved parking for over 1,500 cars.

The first lighthouse on Canada’s west coast is still in operation! There hasn’t been a keeper here since the light was automated in 1929, but every year many thousands of visitors step inside a real l9th century light, and capture some of the feeling of ships wrecked and lives saved.