Lillian Hoffar Park

Lillian Hoffar Park is a waterfront gem in North Saanich, rich in Indigenous and settler history, featuring remnants of a historic homestead and scenic views along the shoreline

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North Saanich
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Lillian Hoffar Park is a 1.61 hectare waterfront park in North Saanich
The park is named after the Hoffar family, who donated the land to the District of North Saanich in the 1970s
The Tseycum First Nation originally used the land for their winter village and moved to different resource areas throughout the rest of the year
In 1943, Henry Stonestreet Hoffar, a renowned boat builder, inventor, and engineer from Vancouver, along with his wife and naturalist Lillian Alice Hoffar, purchased the land as a retirement property, which they named ‘Windward’
When the land was donated to the district, it came with a life tenancy for Henry and Lillian’s daughter, Irene Hoffar Reid
Irene was a popular Vancouver artist with works in the collections of the Vancouver and Victoria art galleries
The remnants of the Hoffar residence can still be seen in the park, including a concrete retaining wall along the shoreline, the foundation of a boathouse, traces of garden beds, a rough-cut rock wall enclosing fruit trees and perennial plants, and a boat launch