| Feature Type: | Ridge (2) - Elongated stretch of elevated ground. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | S of Mill Bay on W side of Saanich Inlet, between Bamberton and Shawnigan Lake, Malahat Land District |
| Tags: | Indigenous |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 48°36'11"N, 123°35'26"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92B/12 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 11 June 1934 on National Defence sheet 415g - a long-established local name. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Identified as Beddingfield Range on British Admiralty Chart 2689, published in 1865 from Captain Richards' surveys of 1861 [likely a mis-spelling - see Bedingfield Bay and Range.] Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Malahat means "place of bait." (May 1959 advice from Walter Elliott, Tzuhalem Band, to Provincial Archives); "a bunch of caterpillars" (April 1973 advice from Randy Bouchard, BC Indian Language Project, in turn as told by Chris Paul, Tsartlip Band); Ma'lexel [applying to upland stretching along east side of Saanich Inlet or just to the Mill Bay area?] refers to a caterpillar infestation... (Saltwater People, as told by David Elliott Sr; School District 63, 1983.) Source: included with note |
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June 3, 2011 is the 100th anniversary of the first car over the Malahat. Link to "www.maureenduffus.com/history/malahat-drive" for the story and photographs of the building of the Malahat Drive. Source: included with note |