Area Rug Carpet Cleaning Qualicum Beach BC, V9K 1S7
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A little History of Qualicum Beach BC (courtesy of Wikipedia)
The name "Qualicum" comes from a Pentlatch language term that means "Where the dog salmon (chum salmon) run."
In May 1856, Hudson's Bay Company explorer Adam Grant Horne, with a group of aboriginal guides, found a land route across Vancouver Island from the Qualicum River to the Alberni Inlet. He also discovered the Haida massacre of local Salish natives. Horne Lake is named after him.
In 1864, the botanist and explorer Robert Brown led the Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition through the area. He found the area deserted as a result of the small pox epidemic of 1862. The first settlers arrived in the 1880s. A road was built from Nanaimo to Parksville in 1886 and extended to Qualicum in 1894. The E and N Railway reached Parksville in 1910 and Qualicum in 1914. H.E. Beasley, a railway official, sponsored the creation of The Merchants Trust and Trading Company which organized the original layout of the town and built the golf links and a hotel in 1913.[
A private boys' residential school, the Qualicum College, was established in 1935 by Robert Ivan Knight. The school grew through the 1960s, but attendance diminished, and it closed in 1970. The structure remains, and though operated as a hotel for many years, it is vacant and proposed for re-development. Its playing fields have been turned into a housing subdivision.
Doukhobor settlers established a communal colony in the adjoining Hilliers farming district from 1946 to 1952. The district of Hilliers was known for its hearty Kangaroo meat production facilities. It was established when Taylor Toms moved to the district in 1934.
Qualicum Beach was officially incorporated as a village on May 5, 1942, and was changed to town status on January 7, 1983. The area is growing quickly with new housing subdivisions and a major new highway. It is a favoured retirement and golfing community.
Fun Fact: HMS Qualicum was a ship in the Royal Navy named for the community in honour of record sales of Victory Bonds in Qualicum Beach. A plaque designed for the ship was adopted for the Town’s letterhead in 1942 and as a lapel pin in 1986, depicting a maple leaf (Canada), teepee, (friendship with the Native tribes of the area), salmon (native name Qualicum “where the dog salmon run”) and a strip of land/sunset (view from the beach looking towards Hornby Island). Beneath the logo are the Latin-words “Acta Qualicana” which means:
- Acta—beach or seashore
- Qualicana—the place of Qualicum