Coming up:BC Dairy Day & World Milk DayCentral Saanich 75th
Central Saanich 75th AnniversaryWe're joining with the Municipality to celebrate the 75th Anniversary (or should that be birthday?) of the start of Central Saanich!
Talk & Tea
Our Spring Talk & Tea series is finished for the season, however we're looking forward to another series in the Autumn.
Days, Months, & Events We Celebrate
Significant days in history or locally, are cause for recognition and celebration. Some we mark by an exhibit or display, others we post about on social media.
Look for ways to learn and celebrate the history of the Saanich Peninsula, Vancouver Island, BC, and Canada!
In Canada, we mark the February 23rd as National Aviation Day, to honour the day in 1909
in Baddeck NS, when the Silver Dart made the first controlled powered flight in Canada.
The original Silver Dart was designed and built by the Aerial Experiment Association,
which had been formed under the guidance of Dr Alexander Graham Bell.
Locally, we have aviation all around us on the Saanich Peninsula, from the inaugural
mail flight in 1931; to an RCAF aerodrome; to our association with the beloved Martin Mars waterbombers; to the current Victoria International Airport airport that so many of us use!
February 21st was MotherLanguageDay, an international recognition of linguistic diversity.
Joining the Indigenous people, immigrants came from various places in the world to arrive in North America.
Here on the #SaanichPeninsula, early immigrant languages included those from Scotland, Hawaii, Sweden, China, England, India, Ireland, France, California, Japan, Germany, Wales, and Australia, in addition to the first language, #SENĆOŦEN, spoken by the
#W̱SÁNEĆ people!