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Victoria Harbour deserves more respect

The Knowledge Network recently aired a program called Canada on the Edge, which focused on our rich ocean foreshore and history.

The Knowledge Network recently aired a program called Canada on the Edge, which focused on our rich ocean foreshore and history.

The program travelled by helicopter from Carmanah Light down to Sheringham, Race Rocks, Esquimalt and Victoria Harbour around to Butchart Gardens, Saltspring Island and the Gulf Islands. It included interviews at various places on the ground about our marine and military history, as well as several of our marine parks and Butchart Gardens. It also acknowledged our native heritage.

We were struck by the awesome beauty of our place and thought those in the rest of Canada would feel the same.

The program spent several minutes over Victoria Harbour. The western gateway to Canada and a southern gateway to our capital city and province, the harbour visually did not match our natural blessings shown. It needs more love and care than we have provided up to now.

We must be absolutely uncaring to even contemplate locating an industrial wastewater treatment plant at the entrance to our harbour. Such mistreatment of place, history and importance will become a major embarrassment to us as a capital city and to our province.

Our concern is the harbour, not sewage treatment — the site location is wrong.

Our harbour deserves better care, love and respect.

Celia and Bruce Devitt

Esquimalt