Uncategorized – Cowichan Cottage

Things To Do

Posted on March 29, 2021June 29, 2023 by dbeneteau

photo courtesy of laina.photo Bike the Cowichan Valley Trail https://www.cvrd.ca/121/Cowichan-Valley-Trail2 minutes awayPassing just above the cottage, the Cowichan Valley Trail follows the old route of the Canadian Northern Pacific Railway. The tracks have long been removed leaving a wide, level trail through the woods that runs from the town of Lake Cowichan all the way to Duncan, making up part of the Great Trail of Canada. You'll pass...

History of the Cottage

Posted on February 1, 2021February 11, 2021 by dbeneteau

James Dunsmuir In the 1890s, Colonel Andrew Haggard, older brother of writer H. Rider Haggard, discovered the joys of fishing on the Cowichan River. He wrote numerous articles for the popular British sporting magazine The Field extolling the virtues of the river and its abundance of large trout and salmon. He eventually built a fishing lodge on the river on the edge of the town of Lake Cowichan. see: Colonel Haggard of the Cowichan A few years...