Beacon Hill

Death, life and happiness are in the story of Beacon Hill.

On these headlands, where an ancient race once buried their dead, early settlers erected beacons to guide mariners past dangerous Brotchie Ledge.

Here, too, ever since Victoria was founded in ...

Beacon Hill Park

When Victoria was settled in 1840, this area was a natural park. It was reserved in 1858 for a park by Sir James Douglas, Governor of the Colony of Vancouver Island and given in trust to Victoria by the Province ...

Beacon Hill

On this spot a signal beacon

was established in 1775

and about this hill

American patriots

bravely resisted a large force

of invading British troops

July 5, 1779

To honor the deeds of the Fathers

Rising above the location of this sign stands Beacon Hill. In 1775 a ...