The Pauaquachin (formerly Pak-quw-chin) are a Coast Salish indigenous people whose territory is in the Greater Victoria area of southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
They are one of the five groups of houses or 'families' of Saanich, along with the Tsawout, the Tseycum, the Malahat, the T'sou-ke, and the Tsartlip First Nations.
[3] All on-reserve Pauquachin members reside on the Coles Bay reserve where residential, cultural, and administrative buildings are available.
The reservations were established in 1877 as part of the Douglas Treaties on Southern Vancouver Island, which were a colonial policy that recognized indigenous possession of land.
In 1996, officials determined that the decades-long conversion of the region around the Saanich Inlet had led to massive destruction.