Mount Douglas (SENĆOŦEN: pq̕áls or PKOLS) is a prominent, 260 m (853 ft) hill on the ancestral lands of the Saanich people, currently claimed by the Greater Victoria municipality. English colonizers changed the name for the second governor of the Colony of Vancouver Island, Sir James Douglas, who oversaw the signing of the Douglas Treaties. One of these treaties was signed at the top of PKOLS in 1852, the North Saanich Treaty. This treaty and those who translated it to attain signatures misled the local First Nations peoples, who believed they were signing an agreement for shared land use, not a permanent surrender of the land. Oral histories show that the Saanich nations were told that this was a peace treaty and that there would be no change to their way of life. This promise was broken with the restriction of fishing and hunting rights and the later development of the reserve system.