John Tod House
John Tod was born in Scotland and emigrated to Canada in 1811 where he rose to the position of chief fur trader with the Hudson's Bay Company. His house, located at 2564 Heron Street, is western Canada’s oldest house, completed in 1851. Tod built the house from local heavy timber, with pegged and dovetailed construction rare to the area. Since 1929 owners of the house have complained of ghostly activities and unexplained events. Rumours abounded of secret tunnels dug from the house to Oak Bay coves for the purposes of smuggling contraband – but the tunnels have yet to be discovered.
Joggers and dog along Cadboro Bay Road
(*Cadboro Bay Road, the longest in the municipality, takes its name from the Hudson's Bay Company's brigantine, Cadborough, a 72-tonne, 56-foot ship - the first to anchor in the bay in 1842. The Cadborough was lost 20 years later in a storm.)
Garden retreat along Cadboro Bay Road
