current location, at the location of the old Hudson's Bay Company cattle wharf. The Victoria Cougars won the 1925 Stanley Cup at the Patrick Arena in Oak Bay, the arena was destroyed by fire in 1929, the Victoria Cougars are today the Detroit Red Wings. The Oak Bay Marina was built in 1962 and officially opened in April 1964. It replaced the Oak Bay Boat House built in 1893. The breakwater was built in 1959 and funded by the federal government. There have reportedly been sightings of a sea monster known as the Cadborosaurus off Oak Bay, with both reports dating back to before European settlement in the area. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Oak Bay had a population of 17,990 living in 7,807 of its 8,168 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 18,094. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. Religion According to the 2021 census, religious groups in Oak Bay included: Irreligion (10,250 persons or 58.1%) Christianity (6,430 persons or 36.5%) Judaism (260 persons or 1.5%) Buddhism (170 persons or 1.0%) Sikhism (120 persons or 0.7%) Islam (85 persons or 0.5%) Hinduism (50 persons or 0.3%) Other (280 persons or 1.6%) Film studio During the 1930s, Oak Bay, British Columbia was the original "Hollywood North" when fourteen films were produced in Greater Victoria between 1933 and 1938. In 1932 Kenneth James Bishop leased an off-season exhibition building on the Willows Fairgrounds was converted to a film sound stage to produce films for the British film quota system under the Cinematograph Films Act 1927 and films were produced with Hollywood stars such as Lillian Gish, Paul Muni, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Edith Fellows, Charles Starrett and Rin Tin Tin Jr. Film production was curtailed when the Cinematograph Films Act 1938 specified only British made films would be included in the quota. The Willows Park Studio films include: 1933 The Crimson Paradise ("Fighting Playboy" in the US) (The first all talking motion picture in Canada.) 1935 Secrets of Chinatown (Production Company was Commonwealth Productions Ltd. based on the out of print book The Black Robe by Guy Morton. Kathleen Dunsmuir invested $50,000 in the film. Before completion of the film Commonwealth Productions went bankrupt, Northern Films Ltd. completed post production of the film, Kathleen Dunsmuir lost all $50,000. The film is technically British