Places Named For Blanshard
- Mount Blanshard, part of a group of sugarloaf-type peaks commonly known as the Golden Ears, is located in Golden Ears Provincial Park in the Garibaldi Ranges of the Coast Mountains, immediately north of Maple Ridge, British Columbia.
- The Blanshard River is a tributary of the Tatshenshini River, near the British Columbia–Yukon border.
- Blanshard Island is located among the Gulf Islands northeast of Victoria.
- Blanshard Street is a major thoroughfare in downtown Victoria, running northwards from the north end of Beacon Hill Park to join with Douglas Street just past the Victoria–Saanich boundary. A large provincial government structure, The Richard Blanshard Building stands on the corner of Blanshard and Pandora Streets.
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