The team's home games are played at Victoria's Royal Athletic Park.

On October 12, 2012, the team announced it would be called the HarbourCats after a public naming contest was held that received more than 600 submissions.

Victoria led the league with a team total of 36 home runs on the season.

Attendance increased for the fourth straight year to an average of 2,239 per game, which ranked ninth in North America among summer league clubs.

[4] On July 9th, Carson Cormier and Tate Shimao were selected to represent the HarbourCats in the 2024 All Star Game in Bellingham.

[6] Founder and original owner John McLean, who had changed GMs with Holly Jones leaving and Jim Swanson coming in, would lose the team in a civil claim, part of a larger lawsuit involving his other interests, in BC Supreme Court in the Fall 2014, taken over by the Bhootan Group, led by Matthew Stoudt.

On April 30, 2017, Nick Pivetta became the first former HarbourCats player to reach the major leagues when the right-hander started for the Philadelphia Phillies against the Washington Nationals.

[7] In the early part of the 2021 season, two former HarbourCats made their debuts - Alex De Goti for the Houston Astros and Andrew Vaughn for the Chicago White Sox.