"Hatley Park" 1000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

Sweeping down to the Pacific Ocean across from the Olympic Mountains, Hatley Park - home to the Royal Roads campus - is magnificently beautiful.

Hatley Park Gardens part of an Edwardian estate now owned by Royal Roads University. It was started by James Dunsmuir, the son of a Scottish immigrant a fortune from coal mining in Canada. James made the present house and garden after 1908th. The castle of the house style is more English than Scots. The garden, designed by Boston landscape architect Brett and Hall, has a mixed style Victorian character as the geometric beds near the house and a large garden-style Arboretum. There is also a Japanese garden and a rose garden.

The 565-acre Edwardian estate is situated on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, only 25 minutes from downtown Victoria.  Open all year, visitors can enjoy daily tours of Hatley Castle, a visit to the museum, or strolling through the Japanese, Italian and Rose gardens. This beachfront setting is ideal for weddings, meetings, retreats, conferences, team building business, filming movies, travel experiences and special events.

Source :  http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Hatley_Castle_BC.jpg

The park is a popular destination for bird watchers, and over the lagoon are some of the largest Douglas fir trees are found in BC. One of these trees, known as the  "Magna Carta Tree", dates from the period of Runnymede and was already several hundred years, when a huge earthquake struck the island of Vancouver in 1700.  Three hundred years later, you can see where the top of the tree died - but the tree continues to grow and measures nearly two meters in diameter.  From humble beginnings as a barn in Fort Victoria, Colwood has grown into a thriving city. Rich in history, of which he is justly proud, keep Colwood  a forward vision and aims to continue to improve. Located as it is at the southern tip of Vancouver Island, one of the best climates in Canada, the city is ready to success.

 

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1. http://www.gardenvisit.com/garden/hatley_park_gardens#ixzz1C44GiilD
2. http://www.tripadvisor.com/Travel-g154945-d607581/Victoria:Vancouver-Island:Hatley.Park.National.Historic.Site.html
3. http://www.amazines.com/Real_Estate/article_detail.cfm/1966538?articleid=1966538
4. http://www.hatleypark.ca/about-us/hatley-gardens/garden-inventory/
5. http://www.hatleygardens.com/