Anglers Tavern:

The Anglers Tavern honors Ashdown Henry Green who built his mansion the “Kilninta” on 10 acres on the Cowichan Rivers’ bank in 1893. The Anglers Tavern is part of this mansion, renovated to a new pub with the original architecture still in place. The décor and menu harks back to the Cowiichan River’s heyday when anglers came from all over the world. Now you too can enjoy a delicious pan-fried trout and many other mouth watering appetizers, soups, salads, entrees and desserts on the menu as well as your favourite beers and spirits.

The Anglers Tavern has an outdoor patio, a separate smoking room, 2 pool tables, dart boards, and juke box. Enjoy Karaoke Bingo on Thursdays and Karaoke on Saturdays with BBQ Buffets in the hot summer months on Thursdays, Fridays,




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Ashdown Henry Green
(1840-1927)

Ashdown Green was a civil engineer and land surveyor who came to Vancouver Island in 1862 aged 22, an adventurer who later helped chart B.C. from the Selkirk Mountains to the Pacific. He came to the Cowichan Valley in 1865, bought a farm near Somenos Lake, the same land the first Protestant ministry had acquired. The first Cowichan Indian Agricultural Exhibition was staged on his land. He was appointed the delegate to attend the Victoria convention for the formation of an Anglican Synod which recognized St Peter’s Church, Quamichan. In 1874 he was elected to North Cowichan Council from Quamichan ward. Joining the Indian Department as a surveyor in 1880 he helped mediate with the tribes, to fairly examine and distribute land in the region.

Ashdown was president of the Victoria Natural History Society and in 1894 wrote the fishing chapters in Gosnell’s “Yearbook of British Columbia”. Nine species of fish were attributed to him, two named after him – the Lake Chub (Couesius Plumbeus Greenii) and the Lobefin Snailfish ( Polypera Greenii).
He designed a streamer fishing fly, the “Ashdown Green” which was a recognized pattern and featured on the Sportsman cigarette packages for years. In the 1890’s sportsmen from all over the globe came to the Cowichan area to enjoy worldclass trout and salmon fishing. *See the original displayed at the Anglers Tavern.