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During the early years, Victoria House was a fishing camp without electricity or telephones. In the 1920s, Charles Nickerson, Nathan's son, sold Victoria House to the Grisé brothers; they had operated The Royal Hotel (a four storey building with a dock c. 1903 and closed mid 1970s then demolished) across the channel on Royal Island.
Carr House is currently a cultural centre celebrating Emily Carr's life through seasonal tours, rotating exhibits, programming and events. It is operated by a site manager and owned by the Province of British Columbia. Carr House is located at 207 Government Street, six blocks from Victoria's Inner Harbour and the Parliament Buildings. In ...
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The cruise leaves from North Point and Hung Hom Pier, and offers a 2 hour long journey around Victoria harbour. While on board, passengers are treated to a Dinner buffet, as well as a panoramic view of the laser show A Symphony of Lights. In addition to sightseeing, the fleet also hosts services such as charter cruises, product launches ...
The stack of the MV Coho releasing smoke at Victoria Harbour, 2005. Despite the small size of the watershed land area of the Victoria and Saanich Peninsulas, Victoria Harbour is an estuary. Some of the fresh water tributaries of the harbour include: Colquitz Creek Beaver Lake Elk Lake. O'Donnel Creek; Durrell Creek [78] Swan Lake Creek Swan Lake
Roger is the youngest, originally the ship's boy, but later promoted to able seaman. Their youngest sister Bridget (originally nicknamed "Vicky" due to a resemblance to pictures of Queen Victoria in old age; the nickname is dropped in later books as she loses her resemblance) also joins the crew in Secret Water. Roger is seven in the first ...
Victoria Harbour and Hong Kong Island in the 1860s HMS Tamar anchored off the naval dockyard in Victoria Harbour in 1905 View from the Sky100. The first reference to what is now called Victoria Harbour is found in Zheng He's sailing maps of the China coast, dated c.1425, which appear in the Wubei Zhi (A Treatise on Armament Technology), a comprehensive 17th-century military book.