Metchosin

The District of Metchosin (/məˈtʃoʊzɪn/) is a municipality and community in Greater Victoria on the southern tip of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. It is a coastal community adjacent to the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Metchosin is part of the Western Communities and one of the 13 regional municipalities.

The origin of its name is a Straits Salish word, smets-shosin, meaning "place of stinking fish" or "place smelling of fish oil."^[3]

Following the establishment of farms by the Puget Sound Agricultural Company in the Victoria area, independent settlers entered the Metchosin area. In 1851, Captain Cooper bought land on the shores of Witty's Lagoon, that became the first farm in Metchosin, called Bilston Farm and farmed by Thomas Blinkhorn. Other settlers followed and cleared the arable land.^[4]

In 1861, Race Rocks Lighthouse was built. In the early 1880s, two quarantine stations were built by the federal government, first on Albert Head in 1883 and then William Head, which inspected and controlled all people entering Canada for infectious diseases. Starting in 1924, Bentinck Island was used as a leper colony. As medical procedures progressed, the leper colony was closed in 1956, and in 1958, the quarantine station at William Head was converted into a minimum-security prison. The station at Albert Head became part of CFB Esquimalt.^[4][5]

In 1984, the Municipality of the District of Metchosin was incorporated, mainly to protect its rural character from the encroaching suburban sprawl.^[4]

En el Censo de Población de 2021 realizado por Statistics Canada , Metchosin tenía una población de 5.067 habitantes que vivían en 1.856 de sus 1.938 viviendas privadas totales, un cambio de7,6% de su población de 4.708 ^habitantes en 2016. Con una superficie terrestre de 69,57 km² (26,86 millas cuadradas ) , tenía una densidad de población de   72,8/km ² (188,6/milla cuadrada ) en 2021. ^{[ 2 ]} 

• Parque Regional de la Laguna Albert Head ^{[ 14 ]}
• Parque Natural Blinkhorn
• Pantano de Buckbrush
• Parque Regional Devónico ^{[ 14 ]}
• Parque Regional del Lago Matheson ^{[ 14 ]}
• Parque Regional Laguna de Witty ^{[ 14 ]}
• Parque Regional Galloping Goose ^{[ 15 ]}

Monte Helmcken

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