St. Paul's Church

ID: 543 ~ Source: Macmunn, Charles. Saint Paul's Royal Naval and Garrison Church, looking toward Race Rocks, Esquimalt, British Columbia, between 1893 and 1900. Between 1893 and 1900. Photograph. Charles Macmunn Photographs, PH coll 1496, Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries, Seattle, WA. https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/alaskawcanada/id/538. Accessed December 6, 2020.

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St. Paul's Church was established by the Royal Navy shortly after Pacific Station headquarters was transferred to Esquimalt in 1865. Seen here on its original site, the building was deemed in too great of danger from storms and the percussion from canon shots and was moved inland in 1904.

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Esquimalt Harbour – Place of Gradually Shoaling Waters and Sudden Arrival of Empire

By Neil Christenson

By the time Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) head James Douglas first scouted the harbor in 1843, Esquimalt already had a long human history. A corruption of the Coast Salish word “es-whoy-malth,” meaning “the place of gradually shoaling water,” The vast…