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In the 1980s, it had become the Penny Farthing, and by 2001 was a predominantly gay venue with music and cabaret at the weekends. [3] [4] This was one of several renamings before it closed in 2002 and became Autumn House, and then a Chinese restaurant, Gourmet Buffet, and Buddha Kitchen. [5] [6] [2] [4] It was to have become Tiger Bills by ...
A variation of the game called chuck-hole or chuck-penny was played in the same manner, with the exception that if the coins roll outside a ring drawn around the hole, it was declared a "dead heat," and each competitor reclaims his coin. [4] The coins used were usually small denomination, farthings, halfpence, or pennies.
The Gate of Harmonious Interest in Chinatown, a neighbourhood situated in Downtown Victoria. The downtown area is an extremely popular place for tourists and local Victorians as that is where many of the movie theatres, stage theatres, hotels, restaurants, pubs, night clubs, and shops are.
The Penny location at about Mile 72 occupied the former GTP construction camp (formerly about Mile 162). In 1934, Edward (Ed) V. (1888–1951) [511] & Elsie (1904–95) [512] Chambers moved from Lindup to the camp, where Ed was employed, and by 1936, he worked at a logging camp across the river.
In 1884 he acquired a black-enameled Columbia 50-inch 'Standard' penny-farthing with nickel-plated wheels, built by the Pope Manufacturing Company of Chicago. He packed his handlebar bag with socks, a spare shirt, a raincoat that doubled as tent and bedroll, and a pocket revolver (described as a "bull-dog revolver", perhaps a British Bull Dog revolver) and left San Francisco at 8 o'clock on 22 ...
With the establishment of Fort Victoria, a trail linking the fort to Cadboro Bay ran through the area that would become Fernwood and was used by aboriginals and Europeans. Bishop Edward Cridge described the area as it was in the 1850s as "open country without a house or field till we arrived at the Company's farm [Cadboro Bay Farm]".
Name Address Coordinates Government recognition (CRHP №) Image 10-14 Fan Tan Alley: 10-14 Fan Tan Alley Victoria BC : Victoria municipality () : More images: Charles Hayward House
Subsequently, the supporters of Canada's national summer sport [5] lacrosse, at a meeting chaired by BC Premier Richard McBride formed the Royal Victoria Athletic Association on March 26, 1908, [6] and a senior lacrosse team was founded to enable the best intermediate (Uuder 21) players to play in the British Columbia Amateur Lacrosse ...