Location

• Saanich, B.C.

• Google maps
   

About

• Rithet’s Bog is a municipal park in the Royal Oak area of Saanich

• The park is named after Robert Patterson Rithet, a Victoria businessman and politician who raised thoroughbred horses

• In 1995, the Guinness family donated the 42 hectares of wetlands that the bog sits on to Saanich and eventually a four km trail was built around the bog
   

Lands

• lək ̓ ʷəŋən peoples represented by the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations

• W̱ SÁNEĆ peoples represented by the W̱ JOȽEȽP (Tsartlip), BOḰEĆEN (Pauquachin), SȾÁUTW̱ (Tsawout), W̱ SIḴEM (Tseycum) and MÁLEXEȽ (Malahat)  Nations
   

Amenities

• Interpretive signs

• Trails

• View/lookout

• Parking
   

Online

• Rithet’s Bog Conservation Society

• Rithet’s Bog @ Saanich.ca

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