Victoria’s Coming Events Sept-Nov 2003 – Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Founded by the Sisters of St. Anne, Providence Farm has a history of teaching and helping the community and improving local food for almost 150 years. Proceeds from this year’s Feast of Fields will be split between the FarmFolk/CityFolk Society and the Kitchen Restoration Project at Providence Farm. For more information visit www.engelerfarm.com.

• In Goldstream, salmon appear about mid-October, and may be seen for about nine weeks, the dates varying from year to year.

• Every autumn millions of Pacific salmon forge their way up the myriad streams of the Pacific Northwest to spawn and die.
• Of the five kinds of North American Pacific salmon it is the Chum salmon that is most abundant in this river, though you may also see some Coho and Chinook salmon, as well as the Steelhead and the Cutthroat trout.
• The Freeman King Visitor Centre is open daily during the peak of the salmon run. Naturalists are there to answer your questions and there are displays to tell more about the salmon. Access to the Centre is by a 10 minute walk downstream from the picnic ground.