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Observatory Hill (Saanich)

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Observatory Hill, also known as Little Saanich Mountain, is a hill with a summit elevation of 224 meters located in Saanich, British Columbia, Canada, in the Coast Douglas Fir zone.[1] Its bedrock is quartz-feldspar gneiss of the Colquitz Formation.[2]

Observatory Hill is the site of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, completed in 1918 by the Canadian government.

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