Our Cowichan Community

Our community is a warm, welcoming, wonderful one, filled with incredibly generous people. We are a diverse community of people from all over the world, who practice different faiths and who have different cultures. We are here along with the original inhabitants on what is the traditional land of the Cowichan People.

This page is not here so much for us who live here, but for the Al Sadoon family, who are trying to learn about their future home. If you have ideas for this page,

The Cowichan Valley has been inhabited for thousands of years by the Cowichan First Nations people. Europeans moved here in the late 1800's. It is said that the Cowichan people were fishing the Fraser River on the mainland when the HMS Hecate landed in Cowichan Bay, leading the settlers to believe they had come to a mostly uninhabited land. In fact, that was not true.

In the intervening years, our population has grown to almost 80,000 people. The City of Duncan located within in the Cowichan Valley Regional District has just over 5,000 people.

There are many churches and Sikh Temples in the Cowichan Valley but there is no Mosque. Muslim prayer services are held in Victoria, however and there is a Muslim community there. Victoria is 60k south of us.

Once the family arrives here, there will be plenty for them to do other than go to schooland learn English or work. The Cowichan Valley is the most beautiful place in the world to live and there are many outdoor activities, such as walking, hiking, canoeing, running. There are clubs for all of these. There is also:

• Parks and Playgrounds
• Mountain biking on Mt. Prevost
• Tubing on the Cowichan River
• Cowichan River Park
• Cowichan Valley Trails
• Recreation in the Cowichan Valley
• Activities at the Community Centre
• Swimming at the Cowichan Aquatic Centre
• Cowichan Cultural Centre
• BC Forest Discovery Centre
• More things to do in the Cowichan Valley