James Douglas (governor) - Places Named For Douglas

Places Named For Douglas

• Port Douglas, British Columbia is a former community located on the northern end of Harrison Lake.
• The Douglas Ranges, a southermost portion of the Coast Mountains west of Harrison Lake and east of Stave Lake.
• The Douglas Road was an important wagon road that ran via a series of lake portages from Harrison Lake north to Lillooet.
• Douglas is the name of a Canada-US border crossing in Surrey, British Columbia.
• Douglas Peak is a 1486 m mountain of the Vancouver Island Ranges, located southeast of Port Alberni.
• Mount Douglas is a prominent, 260 m hill in the Greater Victoria municipality of Saanich. It lends its name to a high school, road, municipal park, neighbourhood, and several businesses.
• Douglas Channel is a 90 km inlet on British Columbia's northwest coast, just southwest of Kitimat.
• Douglas Inlet lies on the west side of Moresby Island in the Queen Charlotte Islands.
• Douglas Island lies east of Vancouver Island, between Parksville and Nanaimo. The island was renamed Protection Island in the 1960s.
• Douglas Road, which was one of the first roads connecting New Westminster to Burrard Inlet, still extant in sections in Burnaby. Not to be confused with the Douglas Road from Harrison Lake to Lillooet.
• Douglas Street (Highways 1 and 17) is a major thoroughfare in Victoria, running north from Dallas Road (Mile "0" of the Trans-Canada Highway) to Dieppe Road in the Broadmead neighbourhood of Saanich.
• Douglas College, is a publicly funded community university transfer and vocational college with campuses in New Westminster and Coquitlam.
• Sir James Douglas Elementary School and Sir James Douglas Annex are public elementary schools in South East Vancouver.
• There are many other elementary, middle, and secondary schools across British Columbia named after Sir James Douglas. Among them is Sir James Douglas elementary school in Victoria which was built in 1910 on the property that used to be Sir James Douglas' farm.
• James Island is a privately owned, 315 ha island located to the east of the Saanich Peninsula, opposite Sidney.
• James Bay, a small bay within Victoria Harbour, and the historic neighbourhood which surrounds it, which had been the Governor's own property and residence before its development.
• Douglas Hall, a residence hall at Trinity Western University in Langley, BC
• Douglas Portage, a route around the "Falls of the Fraser" between Spuzzum and Yale originally built as part of the Hudson's Bay Brigade Trail but which became important during the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush in the absence of other routes. The name Douglas Portage was also used for the first, most southerly, portage of the Douglas Road.
• It is important to note that the famous Douglas Lake Cattle Company, and the lake, creek, and plateau in the area are not named for Douglas, but for a local settler.