Dec 10, 2025
there is a lot growing this season, if you take a closer look 🌱
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there is a lot growing this season, if you take a closer look 🌱
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Sorry if this is stupid to ask but I saw your post about under the bridge and I’m confused…. Is the town on the show where it takes place a made up place? Or is it like a suburb outside of Victoria? Sorry, dumb American here who got D’s in geography…
It's real - there's multiple municipalities inside of Victoria, which is a city at the southern tip of Vancouver Island. The murder of Reena Virk happened around View Royal (neighborhood in Victoria), and her body was discovered in the Gorge waterway closer to Downtown Victoria.
Saanich is the largest municipality in Victoria - that's why Cam's badge says "Saanich Police Department." That confused me at first, since Reena's body was discovered in an area that would have made it Vic PD's jurisdiction - but if her missing persons complaint was filed in Saanich, that makes sense.
What the show gets wrong is the population of Victoria. In the 90s, just over 300,000 people lived there year-round, making it a small city by Canadian standards, definately not a small town. Even Saanich, the municipality Cam lives in, is the University District, meaning it would be largely populated by families who owned property in the area, and college students who rent there.
TL;DR: the entire southern peninsula (below) is Victoria. Saanich, View Royal, Esquimalt, and Oak Bay are municipalities (neighborhoods) within Victoria.
You can actually see the Craigflower Bridge (which we see in the show) on the map, which is getting pretty close to Metro Victoria - it's right near the largest shopping mall in Victoria in the 90s.
Anyway, all this to say - yes, Victoria, and Saanich are both real - but they're a lot more Metro than the show represents.
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Adding to this post - Victoria is only the southern tip of the island. Here's Vancouver Island:
The island is larger than several US states for reference. And for the Europeans, it's about the size of Belgium and separate from the mainland of BC by the length of the english channel. It's BIG. Just under a million people live on the island, mostly on the southern half surrounding Victoria and Nanaimo - which is also a city.
