Ocean Island Victoria Guide

One of Victoria’s most popular summer sporting festivals, and the only Dragon Boat Festival in Canada to take place in a working harbour. Watch 90 Dragon Boat teams from across North America race across a 500-metre water course at Ship’s Point, in the Inner Harbour. In addition to the dragon boat races, the festival also has: [...]

The Victoria Grizzlies are a Junior “A” ice hockey team based in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. They are members of the Coastal Conference of the British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL). They play their home games at Bear Mountain Arena.

The Victoria Shamrocks are a Senior A box lacrosse club, based in Victoria, British Columbia. The team competes in the 7-team Western Lacrosse Association (WLA). The Shamrocks have won the Mann Cup 8 times: in 1955, 1957, 1979, 1983, 1997, 1999, 2003, and 2005.

Victoria Highlanders FC is a Canadian soccer club in the United Soccer Leagues (USL) Premier Development League (PDL) and W-League. The Highlanders began PDL play in April 2009 as part of the Northwest Division of the 67 team PDL, while the women joined the W-League in 2011. The PDL and W-League are training grounds for [...]

Victoria’s newest hockey team! They play at the Save-On Foods Memorial Arena, and are part of the WHL.

Interested in fishing on the Island? Angling licenses are available at a number of different shops in Victoria for those ages 16 years and up, and are available as a 1-day ($10-$20), 8-day ($20-$50) or annual ($36-$80) license. Prices vary depending if you’re a resident or not, and are subject to H.S.T. Annual licenses for [...]

They’ll take you on an aerial adventure you’ll never forget and they’re based right here in Victoria, and provide transportation right from Ocean Island!