Salty Tales: Victoria’s Maritime Heritage

Victoria’s history has been shaped by our island location. Shipping, ship-building, and all kinds of boats were central to life in early Victoria. This Labour Day weekend, celebrate classic boats in the Inner Harbour and then hear “salty tales” in the cemetery! Coastal steamers, luxury yachts and racing yachts, tugboats, RCN war ships and patrol vessels, and car ferries—and the people who built, owned, and sailed them—will all be featured on this new OCS team tour, which will end at the Naval Memorial. The tour will include the grave of W.H. Langley, original owner of SV Dorothy—Canada’s oldest sailboat still actively sailing, now part of the collection of the Maritime Museum of BC and a highlight of this year’s Classic Boat Festival.