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New Management Plan For Fort Rodd Hill And Fisgard Lighthouse

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By NPT Staff - December 21st, 2022
The lighthouse portion of Fort Rodd Hill and Fisgard Lighthouse National Historic Sites.

The lighthouse portion of Fort Rodd Hill and Fisgard Lighthouse National Historic Sites/Jennifer Bain

Fort Rodd Hill and Fisgard Lighthouse National Historic Sites has a new management plan.

The plan was based on input from Songhees and Esquimalt First Nations communities, other partners and stakeholders, local residents and visitors. It replaces the 2003 plan and outlines the following key strategies:

• Conserving a cultural landscape: Building on growing relationships, significant infrastructure investments, and ongoing successes to conserve cultural and natural resources.

• Working with partners: Recognizing the intersection of layered histories at the sites and opportunities to collaborate with others to share a wide range of stories with diverse audiences.

• Welcoming visitors: Expanding on recent steps to assess visitor needs, update interpretive materials and introduce new visitor experiences to provide a revitalised visitor offer.

Some of the beach at Fort Rodd Hill and Fisgard Lighthouse National Historic Sites.

Some of the beach at Fort Rodd Hill and Fisgard Lighthouse National Historic Sites/Jennifer Bain

Located in the southwest corner of Canada in Colwood, just west of Victoria, British Columbia, in the traditional territory of the Songhees and Esquimalt First Nations, Fort Rodd Hill and Fisgard Lighthouse National Historic Sites conserve and present Canada's military and maritime heritage.

The sites were designated separately, but are physically connected and managed as a single unit.

Fort Rodd Hill commemorates the role of the Victoria-Esquimalt fortifications (1878-1956) in the defence of Victoria and the Esquimalt naval base, and by extension the defence of Canada and the British Empire.

Fisgard Lighthouse commemorates the site’s role as the first permanent lighthouse on Canada's Pacific coast (completed in 1860).

Many stories come together at these sites, revealing their past roles: a spiritual place for First Nations; a military fortification, a beacon for safe navigation, a space for recreation, and a unique system of ecosystems to protect and manage.

Parks Canada hopes to create more opportunities to involve First Nations, partners and stakeholders in conserving, understanding and presenting stories about these sites.

The sites draw more than 60,000 visitors per year, but there are no public transportation options to get to them.

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