Camosun ( ) was the name of a
Songhees
The Lekwungen or Lekungen nation (lək̓ʷəŋən often called the Songhees or Songish by non-Lekwungens) are an Indigenous North American Coast Salish people who reside on southeastern Vancouver Island, British Columbia in the Greater Victoria a ...
settlement near the site of the present-day
Empress Hotel on
Vancouver Island
Vancouver Island is an island in the northeastern Pacific Ocean and part of the Canadian Provinces and territories of Canada, province of British Columbia. The island is in length, in width at its widest point, and in total area, while are o ...
.
Fort Camosun
Fort Victoria began as a fur trading post of the Hudson’s Bay Company and was the headquarters of HBC operations in the Columbia District, a large fur trading area now part of the province of British Columbia, Canada and the U.S. state of Wash ...
was the second name of what became
Fort Victoria. It now refers to:
*
Camosun College, a community college in Victoria, British Columbia
* The Camosun Bog in
Pacific Spirit Park
Pacific Spirit Regional Park is a http://www.spdf2013.com/program/Docs/BogsCreeks-PacificSpirit.pdf park located in the University Endowment Lands, on Point Grey to the west of the city of Vancouver, British Columbia. It surrounds the endowment la ...
on the University Endowment Lands at the University of British Columbia adjacent to the City of Vancouver.
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