The Butchart Gardens is located at Tod Inlet. That stems directly from the Vancouver Portland Cement Company, which set up a limestone quarrying and cement factory operation at Tod Inlet in 1904.
Robert Butchart was the Managing Director, and shareholder, in the Vancouver Portland Cement Company.
Here is a map showing the location of Tod Inlet:
Here are some site with more information about Tod Inlet:
- Times Colonist – September 2015
The earliest map of Tod Inlet is an 1859 cadastral map now part of the B.C. Public Archives collection:
![Portion of 1859 cadastral map showing Tod Inlet and the land that is now Butchart Gardens (BC Archives)](http://www.butchartgardenshistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Cadastral_Map-Tod_Inlet-1859-ButchartGardensHistory-1662x1267.jpg)
Here are some photographs of the Vancouver Portland Cement Company plant as seen from Tod Inlet:
![BC Ministry of Mines photo of the Vancouver Portland cement Company plant at Tod Inlet, circa 1904. Note the aboriginal canoe on the wharf. (BC Archives photo I-56386)](http://www.butchartgardenshistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Vancouver_Portland_Cement_Company-plant-Tod_Inlet-BCArchives-I56386-ButchartGardensHistory-1662x1237-1.jpg)
![The Vancouver Portland Cement Company plant at Tod Inlet, circa 1904 (BC Archives photo G-08188)](http://www.butchartgardenshistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Vancouver_Portland_Cement_Company-plant-Tod_Inlet-BCArchives-G06188-ButchartGardensHistory-1662x1165-1.jpg)
![The CPR steamer Charmer at the Vancouver Portland Cement Company wharf, Tod Inlet, circa 1908 (BC Archives photo A-00024)](http://www.butchartgardenshistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Vancuver_Portland_Cement_Company-plant-CPR_steamer_Charmer-BCArchives-G06188-ButchartGardensHistory-1662x1239-1.jpg)
![Vancouver Portland Cement Company plant at Tod Inlet, circa 1910 (BC Archives photo G-06193)](http://www.butchartgardenshistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Vancouver_Portland_Cement-Tod_Inlet-BCArchives-G06193-ButchartGardensHistory-1662x1165-1.jpg)
![Vancouver Portland Cement Company plant at Tod Inlet, circa 1910 (BC Archives photo G-6194)](http://www.butchartgardenshistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Vancouver_Portland_Cement-Tod_Inlet-BCArchives-G06194-ButchartGardensHistory-1662x1165-1.jpg)
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