“The width of the Strait East of the Race Rocks is such that a ship of war, keeping well out to sea would be out of range of the guns at Esquimalt or at Fort Macaulay, and would be free to proceed on its way to Vancouver without interuption unless a fort were erected at some point commanding the passage.”
Below are several articles from Archival resources where Race Rocks was involved. Note this is before British Columbia joined confederation so it was still a colony of Britain. Following is :The Report of the Honourable John A. Langevin Minister of Public Works 1872 Note: Error below in the date of construction of the Race Rocks Lighthouse:, it was actually opened on Boxing Day of 1860. 
From: 1874: CANADA Parliament Sessional Papers, Volume 3, First Session of the Third Parliament of the Dominion of Canada 1873: Report of the Agent for British Columbia of the Department of Marine and Fisheries For the Fiscal Year ended 30th of June 1873, Victoria,
See below the part that pertains to Race Rocks
Parts of this shipwreck now rests off Rosedale Rocks in about 20 metres of water.
There was some controversy in the early years of 2000 that the granite of Race Rocks did not come from England , but was quarried locally. This report sheds great doubt on that theory, from which was floated by some of the historians associated with Fisgard Island.
This may be evidence that the grey granite of Race Rocks lighthouse was probably not quarried locally as this report was 21 years after Race Rocks was constructed. So it is quite obvious that the granite must have been shipped from England as is generally accepted. .
