A name is a name is a name, Shakespeare tells us. But what if there’s a story behind that name? Often there’s much more than meets the eye behind the christening of the Cowichan Valley’s mountains, streams and other geographical features.

Chapter highlights include:

• History’s injustice to the Hul’qumi’num (Cowichan), the first mapmakers

• Shawnigan’s Camp Pringle honours the father and son, George C. and George Robert Pringle

• Few know that the ‘last spike’ of Canada’s trans-continental railway was driven at Shawnigan’s Cliffside

• Fairbridge Drive recalls the once world-famous Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm

• Named for a WW1 battlefield, Hill 60 was the site of Canada’s only manganese mine

• And hundreds more historically significant place names of the Cowichan Valley

150 pages.

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