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History > Overview Located on the shores of the Saanich Inlet, Bamberton consists of 1563 acres, including 5km of oceanfront, between Goldstream and Mill Bay. In geological time, the Saanich Inlet is young, having been formed only 11,000 years ago, around the time of the last great glaciers, and it is both distinctive and sensitive due to the relatively shallow entrance to its deep body. For the Saanich First Nations, including the Malahat who, it is said, arrived from the north, the inlet has always been a major resource. And the mountain, Yos, that rose from it, was life sustaining and sacred. A century ago this land lent the limestone that courses through its hillside to the designs of businessmen who converted her stone to cement and her forest to a town and her shore to a port from which flowed the foundations of bridges and roads and dams and great buildings erected around the world. The Company Town that grew up from this enterprise was called Bamberton. |