Link to our Tourism website here.

This is our BIA Link and Partners page

Main page Muraltown website Link
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Various links below:

Listing on a 3 D map of all BIA businesses.

Additional things to do and see for family fun.
   
"Click" these above pictures for video or web links.

• Chamber of Commerce link.
  
•  Chemainus Walking Tours.
  Guided in character by an experienced Historical Interpreter.
  
  
• Chemainus Theatre Festival Link
  
  
• Duncan: Cowichan Theatre link
  
  
• Nature around Chemainus  Visit Chemainus video.  Parks website link.
  
  
• WildPlay Element Park   Ziplines, TreeGO Course, King Swing, Bungy, Family Fun.
  
  A Chemainus BIA Partner.
  
  
• Pacific Northwest Raptors
  
  
• Read our regional Chemainus Valley Courier Newspaper
  
  
• Link to monthly updated events calendar hosted by Chemainus.com. 
   
  
  
• Link to events for Ladysmith and region.
  
  A Chemainus BIA partner community.
  
  
• An authentic Cowichan First Nations Experience.
  
  
• Nananimo Airport
   
• Regional attractions listed.
  
  
• "Share the Excitement" .Tourism BC Page

Another introduction to Chemainus.

Settled in the 1850s by European farmers, Chemainus quickly became a major timber-milling and -shipment point, due to the town's Horseshoe Bay, the oldest deepwater port on the Canadian west coast.

Prosperity saw the building of handsome homes and a solid commercial district. By the mid-20th century, the sawmills here were among the largest in the world, fed by the seemingly unending supply of wood from Vancouver Island's vast old-growth forests.

When the mills started to talk about clsoing in 1980 - 83, the town was about to slid into decline. Economic prospects for Chemainus seemed dim around 1980 - 84 until Karl Schutz had the bright idea of hiring an artist to paint a mural depicting the town's history. Tourists took notice, and soon mural painting became the raison d'être of this town of only slightly more than 3,500 residents.

Chemainus, is now Canada's largest permanent outdoor art gallery. Much of downtown is covered with murals, most dealing with area history and now "Emily Carr" (read our story on Emily).

Stop by the Chemainus Visitor Info Centre, for a walking-tour map of the murals, or go to www.muraltown.com for an online map. Across the street from the visitor center in Heritage Park you can join a horse-drawn wagon tour of the murals or simply follow the yellow shoe-prints painted on the sidewalks.
Much of the town is quiet and pedestrian-oriented, making it a pleasant place for a stroll and a good spot for lunch, and stay overnight and take in a live professional theatre show or play a round of golf. Make Chemainus your central Vancouver island destination for Island exploring.

Old Town Chemainus, along Willow and Maple streets, is filled with Victorian cottages converted into shops and cafes.

The Chemainus Theatre is a late-19th-century opera style house that now serves as a popular dinner theatre.