Songhees Point

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Songhees Point is a culturally and spiritually significant coastal site in Victoria, British Columbia, revered by the Songhees Nation as part of their ancestral territory.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Songhees Point canonical 4

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (28)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indigenous sacred site
coastal site
cultural heritage site
associatedWith Lekwungen people
Songhees Nation
culturalContinuity ongoing importance to Songhees community
culturalSignificance culturally significant to the Songhees Nation
hasCulturalRole place of cultural practices for the Songhees Nation
hasEnvironment marine coastal environment
hasGeographicFeature rocky shoreline
hasHeritageType Indigenous cultural landscape
hasLocalNameLanguage Lekwungen
hasSpiritualRole place of spiritual practices for the Songhees Nation
heritageProtectionStatus recognized in local planning and heritage discourse
isCoastal true
isReveredBy Songhees Nation
isSubjectOf local heritage interpretation in Victoria
isWithinTraditionalTerritoryOf Songhees Nation
locatedIn British Columbia
Canada
Victoria, British Columbia
near Victoria harbour
linked to: Victoria Harbour
overlooks coastline of Victoria
partOf ancestral territory of the Songhees Nation
recognizedAs part of Songhees ancestral lands
significanceFor Songhees Nation
spiritualSignificance spiritually significant to the Songhees Nation
traditionalUseBy Songhees Nation

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Songhees Nation hasSacredSite Songhees Point
Lekwungen traditionalTerritoryIncludes Songhees Point
Lekwungen hasSacredSite Songhees Point