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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.
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
Name Address Coordinates Government recognition (CRHP №) Image A.R. Johnston Block 174 Commercial Street Nanaimo BC : Nanaimo municipality () : Angell's Trading 426 Fitzwilliam Street
From 1856 to 1860 the Legislature of the Colony of Vancouver Island met at Bachelor's Hall at Fort Victoria. [2] From 1860 to 1898 it was housed in the first permanent building at Legislative Hall or Legislative Council Court, a two-storey wooden building along with four other buildings (Land Office, Colonial Office, Supreme Court, and Treasury) known colloquially as "The Birdcages" because of ...
The hotel was to serve business people and visitors to Victoria, but later as Canadian Pacific ceased its passenger services to the city, the hotel was successfully remarketed as a resort to tourists. Victoria emerged as a tourist destination beginning in the mid-to-late 1920s. The Empress in August 1930, years after the hotel's expansion in 1928
Cadboro Bay was the site of Sungayka, a village of the Songhees Nation for some 8,000 years prior to the relocation of its people to Victoria's Inner Harbour in the mid 1800s. The land between Gyro Park and Telegraph Bay is included in a Douglas Treaty that is now before the courts.
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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 ...