Mount Tzouhalem

Mount Tzouhalem
Summit of Mount Tzouhalem
Highest point
Elevation536 m (1,759 ft)[1]
Coordinates48°46′42″N 123°36′52″W / 48.77833°N 123.61444°W / 48.77833; -123.61444[2]
Geography
Mount Tzouhalem is located in British Columbia
Mount Tzouhalem
Mount Tzouhalem
Location in western British Columbia
LocationVancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
DistrictCowichan Land District
Topo mapNTS 92B13 Duncan

Mount Tzouhalem is a mountain on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, 4 kilometres east-northeast of Duncan[3] in the municipality of North Cowichan. It is situated between Quamichan Lake, Maple Bay and Cowichan Bay.

The mountain is part of the municipal forest lands. Part of the mountain is an 18-hectare ecological reserve. It is popular with hikers and mountain bikers. It gives views towards Saltspring Island, the Coastal Mountains of the Lower Mainland and, on a clear day, Mount Baker in Washington state.

There was a large Christian cross on one cliffside. The original wooden cross, placed by local Catholic churches in the 1970s, was replaced by the Knights of Columbus with a welded version in the late 1980s.[4] In the night from July 16th to July 17th 2021, unknown individuals removed the cross for unknown reasons.[5]

  1. ^ "Maple Bay". Travel British Columbia. Archived from the original on 24 June 2013. Retrieved 23 June 2013.
  2. ^ "Mount Tzouhalem". BC Geographical Names. Retrieved 2013-06-15.
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  4. ^ "Mount Tzouhalem". Nanaimo Information. Archived from the original on 29 March 2006. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
  5. ^ Rothbauer, Kevin (2021-07-17). "Cross that overlooked Cowichan Valley from Mount Tzouhalem cut down". Cowichan Valley Citizen. Retrieved 2021-07-30.