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Snacking on site

Walking
7 Stops
30m
1km
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Tour Overview

Before becoming historic sites, Fort Rodd Hill and Fisgard Lighthouse were home to soldiers, military families full of lively children, lighthouse keepers and their helpers, small livestock, and before all of them the Esquimalt and Songhees First Nations who still call the area home today. What did all these people have in common? They all had to eat! Every stop on this tour will reveal the food and drinks people would have enjoyed (or at least tolerated) all those years ago.

This tour is suitable for all ages. The terrain is flat, paved, has no stairs and is a 1.5 km loop. Ramps and wheelchair accessible washrooms are available along the path.

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Stops

  1. Stop 2: Warrant Officers' Quarters

  2. Stop 4: Casemates barracks

  3. Stop 5: Fisgard Lighthouse

  4. Stop 3: The canteen

  5. Stop 1: Welcome!

  6. Stop 6: Garry Oak Learning Meadow

  7. Stop 7: Exit gates

  8. Comment card

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