John Dean Provincial Park

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ȽÁU,WELṈEW̱/John Dean Provincial Park
IUCN category II (national park)[1]
View from Pickles Bluff
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Location	Central Saanich, British Columbia, Canada
Coordinates	48°36′44″N 123°26′53″W / 48.61222°N 123.44806°W / 48.61222; -123.44806
Area	174 ha (430 acres)
Established	December 9, 1921
Governing body	BC Parks
Website	BC Parks John Dean

ȽÁU,WELṈEW̱/John Dean Provincial Park, formerly John Dean Provincial Park, is a small, densely vegetated provincial park (174 hectares) on the Saanich Peninsula of southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. The park is located on and around ȽÁU,WELṈEW̱ (Mount Newton), a small mountain (elevation 305 m) in the traditional territory of Wsanec First Nations [1] , itself situated 20 km north of Victoria, the provincial capital city.

Featuring lush vegetation, the park is noted for its virgin old-growth douglas-fir and western red cedar, with large specimens up to 70 m in height (taller than the tallest tree in the UK and the tallest conifer in all of Europe)^[2] and for its rich Coastal Douglas-Fir ecosystem, little of which remains on southern Vancouver Island. About a quarter of the old-growth forest to the north-west lies on the Cole Bay reserve of the Pauquachin First Nation.