Tom Seymonsbergen designed the original View Royal town logo. Originally living in Amsterdam, he was a very talented artist and worked for a top advertising firm in Holland until WWII. He served in the army, eventually becoming Master Sgt. for the American Army. After the war he and his family moved to Canada, eventually landing in Victoria in 1958 where he continued his career in art. Besides designing View Royal logo, he also designed the crest for the Times Colonist.

James Stewart (1828-1892) and Isabella Bruce (1826-1902) left Scotland and arrived in Victoria in January 1853 aboard the Norman Morison. They rented land from Dr. J.S. Helmcken. Their farm was primarily a dairy farm and they sold to the nearby naval base and naval hospital. Their house on Kerwood Street was built in 1856 and demolished in 1950.
John (1851-1930), James (1858-1922), Joseph (1865-1933), and Amy (1870-1963) the youngest, were 4 of 6 children. Amy never married and tended the family farm's chicken and cows after the deaths of their parents. The 1901 Census of Canada shows a nephew, John B Stewart (b. October 11, 1889) and Gong, a labourer, as family and household members. The farmland was sold in 1912 to create a subdivision and Amy bought a double lot across the road on Stewart Avenue (then Denman Avenue) with her brother John. Amy moved onto the new property they called Seaview Farms in 1913, keeping jersey cows until the 1940s. Her niece Lillian Culling later lived in the house.
John married Margaret Murray (1861-1922), settled in the Highlands District and had 3 daughters; Agnes Marion (1898-1990); Margaret Elizabeth (1900-1980), a school teacher at Happy Valley School, married Carrol Alexander Stewart (1889-1929) in 1927; and Jessie (1903-1985) married Rudyard Thomas Kipling (1900-1984) in 1925.
In 1891, Joseph Stewart married Alice Louise “Pam” Parker (1870-1956). Pam was given her pet name by a grandchild in lieu of saying 'Gram'. Her parents, John and Mary Ann (nee Munn) had also arrived in Victoria in 1853 aboard the Norman Morison. Joseph and Pam bought a house at 551 Niagara Street in Victoria and had 5 daughters. (Amy) Lillian (1897-1994) married Harold Culling in 1936; Dorothy Alice (1900-1956) married Bert Keiser; Ethel Kathleen (1902-1938) married Laurence Horace Tapley (1897-1959) in Victoria, BC. Their daughter Rosemary was a young child when Ethel died and she was adopted by her aunt Dorothy and Uncle Bert, becoming a Keiser. Josephine Bernice (1906-1987) married a Cameron; and Viola Winnifred (1909-1992) married a Bligh.
By 1911, John and Margaret had separated, and by 1921 their property in the Highlands had been sold.
When Joseph Stewart died, Pam moved her family to 333 Stewart Avenue near Seaview Farm. Lillian (now Culling) lived at 325 Stewart Avenue.
Dorothy Keiser assisted in the founding of the first Anglican Secondary School in View Royal which was held at Four Mile House in 1943 and at the View Royal Community Hall from 1944-1945.

The Strawberry Vale and District Community Club was founded in 1947 and incorporated in 1948. Prior to the official formation of the Club, the community was still very active in the area. The Strawberry Vale Community Hall, the center for the club's activities, was completed in 1895 and hosted many gatherings. Since 1948, the Club has been overseen by an elected body of officers and introduced a membership fee, which started at fifty cents. Over the years, the Club has held many sports events, social functions, and fundraising activities.

Andria and her husband, Brian Tetlow, emigrated to Canada from England in 1965. They moved to High Street, View Royal from Calgary in 1969.

Nina Joy Cooke was born in Edmonton, AB. She married Rod Trail and had four children. She was a prolific writer of poems, newspaper columns, and magazine articles. She also volunteered with the View Royal Ratepayers and Community Association, as well as the View Royal Library.

The View Royal Airport was a small operation that accommodated float planes flying in and out of Limekiln Cove. The administrative building for the airport was located at 327 Stewart Ave. The planes often travelled between Vancouver, Seattle, and View Royal. They transported a variety of clientele, from celebrities to prisoners.

The Town of View Royal is located on southern Vancouver Island, approximately six kilometers west of Victoria, British Columbia in the Capital Regional District. We would like to acknowledge that we live within the traditional territories of the Lekwungen peoples, known today as the Esquimalt and Songhees Nations, and that their historic connections to these lands continue to this day.

Incorporated in 1988, View Royal's documented history begins in the 1850s when the Hudson’s Bay Company lured settlers to the area with offers of agricultural estates. The Town is home to such landmarks as the Four Mile Pub, Six Mile Pub, and Craigflower Manor, a National Historic Site of Canada. The name View Royal was coined circa 1910 by a real estate developer promoting the ‘Royal Views’ of Esquimalt Harbour. Once a ‘get-away’ with seasonal cottages, the Town has become a gateway between Victoria and the West Shore.