Our First Family Visit to Fort Rodd Hill and Fisgard Lighthouse National Historic Sites
Come check out Fort Rodd Hill and Fisgard Lighthouse National Historic Sites for everything from nature walks and picnics, to historic costumes and games.
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The Garry Oak Learning Meadow at Fort Rodd Hill and Fisgard Lighthouse National Historic Sites
Learn why it's important to conserve Garry oak ecosystems! Visit the Garry Oak Learning Meadow at Fort Rodd Hill and Fisgard Lighthouse National Historic Sites.
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Fort Rodd hill and Fisgard lighthouse national historic sites
Fort Rodd Hill - a National Historic Site - is a coast artillery fort built in the late 1890s to defend Victoria and the Esquimalt Naval Base. The Fort includes three gun batteries, underground magazines, command posts, guardhouses, barracks and searchlight emplacements. There are numerous interpretive signs and audio-visual stations, as well as period furnished rooms and friendly, knowledgeable staff. Visitors can explore gun batteries and underground magazines built a century ago, as well as searchlight emplacements, command posts...and much more.
At Fort Rodd Hill, visitors can explore gun batteries and underground magazines built a century ago, as well as searchlight emplacements, command posts...and much more. Signs, audio and video stations, and friendly, knowledgeable staff tell the stories of this national historic site.
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Fort Rod Hill & Fisgard Lighthouse Victoria, BC
Fort Rodd Hill NHS commemorates the national significance of the Victoria-Esquimalt coast artillery fortress in the defence of Victoria and the naval base at Esquimalt harbour, as part of the larger defence strategy of the British Empire and Canada, 1878 to 1956.
Fisgard Lighthouse NHS commemorates the national significance of the first lighthouse on Canada's west coast. Fisgard has been an important symbol of sovereignty-British, Colonial and Canadian-since 1860. Along with Race Rocks lighthouse, Fisgard provides a guide for mariners to Royal Roads anchorage, Esquimalt harbour and its naval base, and points the way to Victoria harbour.
Fisgard Lighthouse and Fort Rodd Hill National Historic Site, British Columbia, Canada, August 2015
Looking toward Fisgard Lighthouse, at the Fort Rodd Hill and Fisgard Lighthouse National Historic Site, near Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, August 7, 2015.
We visited here after getting off a ferry from Delta to Victoria. This was part of Nicole and Vincent's wedding trip in August of 2015.
Historic Victoria: Fisgard Lighthouse National Historic Site
Shaw TV's Tyler Hooper takes a trip out to the Fisgard Lighthouse National Historic Site in Colwood, B.C.
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A Stroll Through Fort Rodd Hill Park
This historic site is a 19th century coastal artillery fort in Colwood, BC, Canada. There is a lighthouse too. Pretty neat, it was definitely worth the visit.
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Fort Rodd Hill and Fisgard Lighthouse National Historic site
Fort Rodd Hill and Fisgard Lighthouse, a family experience
Fort Rodd Hill and Fisgard Lighthouse National Historic Site is a great place for the whole family. From Jeep tours, games, arts and crafts, exploring, guns and cannons, there's no shortage of fun!
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Fort Rodd Hill and Fisgard Lighthouse National Historic Site
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These pictures were taken during Fall season at the national historic site. Visitors should definitely tour through this place and be touched by the soldiers. Amazing view great site!
Fisgard Lighthouse, Victoria BC Canada
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Fort Rodd Hill
The Fort Rodd Hill National Historic Park in Colwood B.C. near Victoria.
Historic Victoria: Fort Rodd Hill on Shaw TV
Shaw TV's Tyler Hooper visits Colwood's Fort Rodd Hill National Historic Site on this latest segment of Historic Victoria.
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A visit to a historic lighthouse - the little Canadian
The Fisgard Lighthouse was built in 1860! It was the first lighthouse on Canada's west coast. Now a national historic sight the little Canadian climbs the spiral stairs up and checks out some of the displays inside. He also explores the neighbouring Fort Rodd Hill a little, it is also a national historic sight. These sites, run by Parks Canada, are fun to explore!
Fisgard Lighthouse from Fort Rodd Hill
View of Fisgard Lighthouse off Vancouver Island during the September British Car Show at Fort Rodd Hill.
Lighthouse
Photographs and imagery from Fort Rodd Hill's Fisgard Lighthouse. This lighthouse is in the Strait of Juan de Fuca on the coast of Vancouver Island. You can sense the history from these images. In keeping with the SpaDogs style, our focus is the light and imagery it creates.
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BC Heritage Week - Fisgard Lighthouse
M. Karagianis: As the previous speaker mentioned, it is Heritage Week in B.C., and in keeping the theme of Heritage afloat! I'm happy to share the story of a beacon to the past in my constituency.
Since 1860 the Fisgard Lighthouse has stood at the entrance to Esquimalt Harbour, lighting the way safely for passing ships. Fisgard was the first lighthouse on Canada's west coast and was built, in fact, in British Columbia, on Vancouver Island, before it was part of Canada. It has guided mariners for generations and is still operating.
The 47-foot-high structure is topped by a light that is visible for ten nautical miles. Today the white tower and the red-brick keeper's house are a national historical site. Visitors from all over the world come to take in the beauty of the location and the exhibits that tell the story of shipwrecks, storms and the life of light-keepers who lived there until 1929.
The view across the Strait of Juan de Fuca is the snow-capped Olympic Mountains and is very splendid. The lighthouse is part of Fort Rodd Hill National Park, which preserves three historical coastal gun batteries that were built in the late 19th century as part of the coastal defence system. The fortress remained in service for more than 50 years and was decommissioned in 1956.
Today the fort is one of the best preserved and most complete of its kind in the world, and all structures are original. Visitors can explore the barracks, look down the barrels of original guns and descend into the underground magazines. A visit to Fort Rodd Hill and Fisgard Lighthouse is a great adventure, and I encourage everyone here to go and take a visit. Just take Highway 1A to Colwood and turn off at Ocean Boulevard.
Fisgard Lightouse on Vancouver Island
Hunter steers the ship into the harbor as Pup and I explore the other exhibits in the upper area of the lighthouse at Fisgard Lighthouse
7-1-2015 - Day 64 - Fisgard Lighthouse, Victoria, British Columbia
Pictures and a video of the Fisgard Lighthouse.
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