We left Victoria by noon for the short drive to Duncan.  Along the way we stopped at a lookout point, but I forget the name.  The totem there was to commemorate the joining of the island with the mainland in 1866.  The shot of blue sky is actually me trying to catch the twenty or thirty eagles soaring overhead.

The Colony of British Columbia was a crown colony that resulted from the amalgamation of the two former colonies, the Colony of Vancouver Island and the mainland Colony of British Columbia. The two former colonies were united in 1866, and the united colony existed until its incorporation into the Canadian Confederation in 1871.