New UVic buildings get names inspired by local First Nations

In a ceremony on Wednesday, the Songhees and Esquimalt nations gave the university permission to use the names.

Cheko’nien House encompasses two new buildings and is the largest capital project in UVic’s history. The new buildings provide 783 total student spaces, with 398 beds for students in Building 1, along with the Cove dining hall that is open to the campus community. The second of the new buildings, to be completed by September, is called Sngequ House , after a village in what is now known as Cadboro Bay that was used for camas harvesting, trading and cultural and spiritual practices. The name means snow patches.

UVic had asked First Nations chiefs and councils, elders and community members for guidance and direction on the building naming.

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