Visit the Archives

Saanich Archives is open to the public Monday to Friday 10 am to 4:30 pm. We welcome inquiries from everyone with an interest in the history of Saanich - students, teachers, genealogists, artists, historians, writers, residents - and look forward to helping with your research. We are located inside the Saanich Centennial Library. Please enter the library and follow the signs to the Archives.

Hours

Monday to Friday
10 am - 4:30 pm
(closed statutory holidays)

Location

3100 Tillicum Road
Victoria, BC V9A 6T2
(Inside the Saanich Centennial Library, next to Pearkes Recreation Centre)

Free parking

Driving Directions (pdf)

Reference Room

Visitors are welcome to browse through the reference room materials which include books on B.C. history, pioneer files, copies of photographs and maps, directories, oral history interviews, and changing exhibits of archival material. Staff are on hand to answer questions and help with your research.

Finding aids are available for access to the original archival records, which are stored on-site in a climate controlled vault.

Saanich Archives is fully wheelchair accessible.

Please note that no food or drink is permitted in the Archives.

Photo captions (top to bottom): Entrance to the Saanich Centennial Library; Saanich Centennial Library and Saanich Archives; Saanich Archives reference room.