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Craigdarroch Castle is believed to have cost around $500,000 when it was built, and included granite from British Columbia, tile from San Francisco, and an oak staircase prefabricated in Chicago. [5] When originally constructed Craigdarroch stood in grounds comprising 28 acres (110,000 m 2) of formal gardens in Victoria's Rockland neighbourhood ...
The Ross Bay Villa is a historic house museum, at 1490 Fairfield Road in Victoria, British Columbia, owned and operated by the Ross Bay Villa Society. [1] The single-family home, built in 1865, is a Heritage Designated building in the City of Victoria. [2] The Villa is one of only about 10 residences in Victoria known to survive from before 1870.
Garden City, Victoria, in inner bayside Melbourne, Victoria (1926) Peter Lalor Housing Estate, Lalor, Victoria; The Sunshine Estate, Sunshine, Victoria; Canberra, the Australian Capital Territory (1913) Wundowie, Western Australia (1947)
The Craigflower Manor and Craigflower Schoolhouse are National Historic Sites of Canada located in View Royal, British Columbia (the Manor) and Saanich (the Schoolhouse) near Victoria. The centerpiece of each historic site is a 19th-century building — a manor and schoolhouse commissioned by the Hudson's Bay Company to provide education and ...
A real-estate and development ... Victoria received 432.8 hours of bright sunshine, which is the most sunshine ever recorded in any month in British Columbia history ...
[2] It stands in the provincial capital on a 14.6-hectare (36-acre) estate at 1401 Rockland Avenue; [3] while the equivalent building in many countries has a prominent, central place in the capital, the site of British Columbia's Government House is relatively unobtrusive within Victoria, giving it more the character of a private home.
Hatley Park National Historic Site is located in Colwood, British Columbia, in Greater Victoria. It is the site of Hatley Castle, a Classified Federal Heritage Building. Since 1995, the mansion and estate have been used for the public Royal Roads University.
The Sunshine Coast is a geographic subregion of the British Columbia Coast that generally comprises the regional districts of qathet and Sunshine Coast. [1]While populous and frequently visited by tourists, the Sunshine Coast can be reached only by ferry (commonly BC Ferries) or by floatplane, as no access roads have been built around or across the fjords separating it from the rest of the ...