Cadboro Bay is a bay near the southern tip of Vancouver Island and its adjacent neighbourhood in the municipalities of Saanich and Oak Bay in Greater Victoria , British Columbia , Canada .
18-490: The Royal Victoria Yacht Club is located along the shores of Cadboro Bay in The Uplands a neighbourhood of Oak Bay , adjacent to the city of Victoria , British Columbia, Canada, and has facilities at Tsehum Haven near Sidney . The Royal Victoria Yacht Club was formed on June 8, 1892, and moved in 1912 to its current location, at the location of the old Hudson's Bay Company cattle wharf. The Royal Victoria Yacht Club
36-532: A "huge sea serpent with a horse-like head" in Georgia Strait . Later, "with a pair of binoculars, Sgt. Russell saw that the strange apparition was a huge bull sea lion leading a herd of six sea lions... Their undulations as they swam appeared to form a continuous body, with parts showing at intervals as they surfaced and dived. To the naked eye, the sight perfectly impersonated a sea monster." Some suggestions have been made that Caddy could be an example of
54-551: A dairy farm, while Frank Hobbs engaged in business in Victoria and other parts of Vancouver Island. Upon Edwin's death, Frank moved to Cadboro Bay and became active in municipal politics and on the Victoria School Board. He was influential in expanding the provision of high schools for greater Victoria. In recognition of this and other services he provided to the area, the local elementary school , opened in 1951,
72-433: A decomposing basking shark is often mistaken for Caddy and has fooled experts and laymen. A rotting basking shark may also resemble a decomposing plesiosaur . A native image that fits Caddy's description has been traditionally used throughout Alaska. The image indicates that Caddy or a Caddy-like creature moves north to Vancouver when the waters warm. The Inuit of Alaska have even put the picture on their canoes to keep
90-615: A pair of hind flippers, or a pair of large webbed hind flippers fused to form a large fan-like tail region that provides forward propulsion. Dr. Paul LeBlond, director of Earth and Ocean Sciences at UBC , and Dr. Edward Blousfield, retired chief zoologist of the Canadian Museum of Nature , state every elongated animal has been put forward as an explanation for Caddy. These animals include Conger eels, humpback whales, elephant seals, ribbon or oarfish, basking sharks, and sea lions. LeBlond and Blousfield state no known creature matches
108-626: Is a sea serpent in the folklore of regions of the Pacific Coast of North America . Its name is derived from Cadboro Bay in Greater Victoria , British Columbia , and the Greek root word " saurus " meaning lizard or reptile . Cadborosaurus willsi is said by witnesses to resemble a serpent with vertical coils or humps in tandem behind the horse-like head and long neck, with a pair of small elevating front flippers, and either
126-568: Is included in a Douglas Treaty that is now before the courts. Cadboro Bay takes its name from the first European vessel to enter the bay, the Hudson's Bay Company schooner Cadboro . During the 1862 Pacific Northwest smallpox epidemic , which started in Victoria, thousands of indigenous people living in and around Victoria were evicted by force as smallpox spread among them. Hundreds of Haida fled one native encampment and set up another on
144-577: Is the oldest yacht club in British Columbia. Through the years, the club has hosted a number of regattas and sailing races, including a racing program for young sailors Cadboro Bay, British Columbia Cadboro Bay was the site of Sungayka , a village of the Songhees Nation for some 8,000 years prior to the relocation of its people to Victoria's Inner Harbour in the mid 1800s. The land between Gyro Park and Telegraph Bay
162-612: The Victoria Harbour Migratory Bird Sanctuary , which is critical habitat for many species, including several that are listed under the Species at Risk Act . Cadboro Bay gives its name to a type of sea serpent, Cadborosaurus , nicknamed Caddy. Immediately adjacent to the beach itself is Cadboro-Gyro park. The park is popular with children in the neighbourhood as well as other parts of Victoria due to its large concrete climbing structures, in
180-539: The characteristics found in over 200 sightings collected over a century, noting that Caddy is described as having flippers both anteriorly and posteriorly. Darren Naish contends that LeBlond and Blousfield are engaging in "bad science" and have incorrectly assumed that different, conflicting eyewitness reports are all descriptions of one species when various accounts "are most parsimoniously interpreted as descriptions of many things." In 1943, two police officers, Inspector Robert Owens, and Staff Sergeant Jack Russell, saw
198-742: The creature away. The Cadborosaurus is called hiyitl'iik by the Manhousat people who live on Sidney Inlet, t'chain-ko in Sechelt mythology, and numkse lee kwala by the Comox band of Vancouver Island. However, it has also been argued that these Native stories reflect a diversity of different animals. Some mythical, some real, and to just lump them into the Cadborosaurus category ignores their diverse origins and often independent backgrounds. There have been more than 300 claimed sightings during
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#1732782495280216-526: The form of an octopus, a large salmon, a tugboat and the local Cryptid , the sea monster Cadborosaurus . The park was created on 4.37 acres (1.77 ha) of land bought from the Goward estate by the Gyro Club in 1953, which it donated to Saanich in 1954, and subsequently increased in 1961 by the expropriation of adjacent land by Saanich. The park is now 6.022 hectares (14.88 acres). In the summer of 2014
234-478: The king of herrings or giant oarfish ( Regalecus glesne ). This species can reach 17 m (56 feet) in length and weigh up to 300 kg (660 pounds). "They're long and silvery and they undulate like a serpent would as they swim through the water," said H. J. Walker, a senior museum scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography , which has several oarfish in its collection. The carcass of
252-669: The neighbourhood situated between the bay itself and the University of Victoria , bounded by the Uplands district to the south, Ten Mile Point to the east and the Queenswood neighbourhood to the north. At the heart of the neighbourhood is the local centre, Cadboro Bay Village. A prominent resident of the neighbourhood in the first half of the 20th century was Frank V. Hobbs. His brother, Edwin, bought land in Cadboro Bay for
270-679: The past 200 years, including Deep Cove in Saanich Inlet , and Island View Beach , both of which are also on the Saanich Peninsula , and at San Francisco Bay , California. In 2009, fisherman Kelly Nash purportedly filmed several minutes of footage featuring ten to fifteen (including young) creatures in Nushagak Bay . In 2011, a very short segment of the footage was shown on the Discovery TV show Hilstranded , where
288-514: The play area was improved, including the relocation of the octopus and salmon as well as a range of other improvements. Cadboro-Gyro Park is home to the only remaining population of yellow sand verbena in the District of Saanich . 48°27′28″N 123°17′34″W / 48.457746°N 123.292859°W / 48.457746; -123.292859 Cadborosaurus willsi Cadborosaurus , nicknamed Caddy by journalist Archie Wills,
306-590: The shore of Cadboro Bay. In May 1862 the Victoria Police Commissioner Augustus Pemberton took a police force and two recently arrived gunboats, HMS Grappler and HMS Forward , to the Haida camp on Cadboro Bay. They forced about 300 natives, many already infected with smallpox, to evacuate and return to Haida Gwaii . One of the gunboats escorted the canoes north beyond Nanaimo . Today, Cadboro Bay also gives its name to
324-591: Was named in his honour. The Royal Victoria Yacht Club is located on the Oak Bay side of the bay and is situated on a large archeological site of the Songhees Nation. The University of Victoria is located just up the hill from Cadboro Bay, and the UVic Sailing Club maintains facilities and boats on Cadboro Bay beach for the use of its students. Cadboro Bay is located within the boundaries of
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