Description of Historic Place

Honeymoon Bay Hall is a large wood-frame building, with a rural barn-like character, located at 10022 Park Drive in Honeymoon Bay, British Columbia. The hall features varying roof levels and defined sections of horizontal and vertical siding. This historic place includes the hall and surrounding grounds.

Heritage Value

Honeymoon Bay Hall has social and historic value to the Cowichan Valley community. Historically, Honeymoon Bay Hall represents the settlement patterns and development of the Honeymoon Bay area. The hall also symbolizes the relationship between the early logging companies and communities of the Cowichan Lake area. Socially, Honeymoon Bay Hall is valued for its long use as a community meeting place.

Honeymoon Bay Hall represents the settlement of the early logging community of Honeymoon Bay. Opened in 1948, the hall was built in the centre of the early community, and stands today in its original location. It is valued as a physical representation of the original Honeymoon Bay community layout.

Honeymoon Bay Hall illustrates the relationship between early logging companies and their workers. In Honeymoon Bay, Western Forest Industries not only provided income for its employees but also community services including residences, stores, and a community hall. The communities surrounding Cowichan Lake were all built by logging companies, many of these early buildings in Honeymoon Bay still exist today. The hall remains as a reminder of how the community was developed.

Heritage value can be found in the social attributes of Honeymoon Bay Hall. This hall has provided the community of Honeymoon Bay with a community meeting place to socialize and interact for over fifty years. The grounds surrounding Honeymoon Bay Hall include a baseball diamond and tennis court, which have continued to provide recreation to the area. These resources, provided by Western Forest Industries, have greatly contributed to the character of the community.

Source: Cowichan Valley Regional District, Planning and Development Department

Character-Defining Elements

Key elements that define the heritage character of Honeymoon Bay Hall include its:
- Continued use as a community meeting place and recreational location
- Original location and open surrounding grounds
- interior elements of the building related to its use as a social centre, including its stage, open character of the gymnasium, and high ceilings
- original interior elements including the wood paneling
- simple massing, defined sections of horizontal and vertical siding, differing levels of gabled roof
- Honeymoon Bay Hall signage