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Sinclair Centre is an upscale shopping mall in Downtown Vancouver, British Columbia. It is located at 757 West Hastings Street between Granville and Howe streets. The centre comprises four buildings that were restored and connected by a new atrium space designed by Henriquez Partners Architects and Toby Russell Buckwell Architects in 1986. [ 1 ]
The Bay Centre (formerly the Victoria Eaton Centre) is a shopping mall in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. It is bounded by Douglas, Government, Fort, and View streets, in the city's historic centre. [2] It has 39,115 square metres (421,030 sq ft) of retail space. [3] Opening in 1989, the mall was the first large shopping mall in downtown ...
The water supply system for Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, now operated by the Capital Regional District (CRD), served in 2010 over 330,000 people with clean drinking water from a catchment area of 11,025 hectares (27,240 acres) centered on its main reservoir at Sooke Lake. [1]
When Sears vacated the mall, the "Victoria Eaton Centre" was renamed to reflect the mall's new department store tenant, the Bay. Eaton Centre Metrotown (now Metropolis at Metrotown), Burnaby, British Columbia: The Eaton Centre Metrotown opened in 1989. With the departure of the Eaton's store a decade later, the Eaton Centre and the adjacent ...
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.
In the early 1900s a large area west of Fernwood Road was used as a sand and gravel pit to supply construction materials to local builders, to the dismay of many early residents. [12] The problem was partly solved by the construction of the present Victoria High School in 1912 on some of the lands that had been used as the sand and gravel pit.
Sinclair Building or Sinclair Oil Building may refer to: Sinclair Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia; Smulekoffs Furniture Store, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, formerly known as the Sinclair Building; Sinclair, Rooney & Co. Building, Buffalo, New York; 600 Fifth Avenue at Rockefeller Center, Manhattan, New York, formerly known as the Sinclair Oil Building
The annual Victoria Day Parade also marches down the street by starting at Mayfair Shopping Centre and ending at the British Columbia Legislature. Before the construction of the Patricia Bay Highway in the late 1950s, Douglas Street extended a further 2.7 km (1.7 mi) northward, ending at the current interchange of the Pat Bay Highway and Quadra ...