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Langford. The Galloping Goose is southern Vancouver Island's most travelled trail and provides a continuous route from Sooke to Sidney to downtown Victoria. The Trail moves through urban, rural and wilderness settings and the surface of the trail often reflects its surroundings. The majority of the Trail is unpaved gravel while the downtown portions that pass through View Royal, Saanich, and Victoria are paved.
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The settlement began c.1860 when blacks who came to BC from the United States settled there. One account of the name says it was their singing which inspired the name, another says it was one of them, Isaac Mull, who conferred it because of his happiness at becoming a free man under
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Galloping Goose Trail connects cyclists and hikers from throughout the Capital Region to the City of Langford. The Trail runs through south-central Langford and along the southern tip of Glen Lake. It is the main bicycle and pedestrian artery within the Capital Region. The Galloping Goose is a
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Galloping Goose Regional Trail. Glen Lake Beach Park at the north end provides a children’s playground and Spray Park, swimming beach, and accessible picnic tables tucked
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Happy Valley, BC is not an official municipality - it is a part of the municipalities of
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Farmers from Happy Valley go to this event to sell their harvests and wares.
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