Sheppard Point

Sheppard Point (48˚34'00" 123˚31'00" W side of Saanich Inlet, S of Bamberton, NW of Victoria). Named after Henry S Sheppard, who came to the Saanich district from the US about 1860 and built one of BC’s earliest sawmills, at Mill Bay, just N of this location. At the time, it was the only mill between Nanaimo and Esquimalt. William Sayward purchased it about 1863 and greatly expanded the operation, eventually becoming the largest lumber merchant on Vancouver I. This feature was formerly...

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