DESTINATION VICTORIA: Attractions & Culture
The Victoria area was originally home to several communities of Coast Salish peoples, including the Songhees. The Spanish and British took up the exploration of the northwest coast of North America beginning with the visits of Juan Perez and Captain James Cook.
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Beacon Hill Park,
Butchart Gardens,
Butterfly Gardens,
Christchurch Cathedral,
Craigdarroch Castle,
The Empress,
Observatory,
Ogden Point,
Pacific Undersea Gardens,
Parliament Buildings,
BEACON HILL PARK
Beacon Hill Park is a 75 ha (200 acre) park located along the shore of Juan de Fuca Strait in Victoria, British Columbia. The park is popular both with tourists and locals, and contains a number of amenities including woodland and shoreline trails, a playground, playing fields, a petting zoo, and landscaped gardens ...
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BUTCHART GARDENS
The Butchart Gardens is a group of floral display gardens in Brentwood Bay, near Victoria on Vancouver Island which receives more than a million visitors each year. While Mrs. Butchart collected plants, Mr. Butchart collected ornamental birds from all over the world, having a parrot in the house, ducks in the Star Pond and peacocks on the lawn ...
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VICTORIA BUTTERFLY GARDENS
The Victoria Butterfly Gardens is located in the Greater Victoria region of Brentwood Bay and is one of the most popular tourist sites in the Victoria area. The Victoria Butterfly Gardens is known for having different species of butterflies and moths in their indoor facility, as well as, different species of birds and fishes ...
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CHRISTCHURCH CATHEDRAL
Christ Church Cathedral in Victoria is the cathedral church of the Diocese of British Columbia of the Anglican Church of Canada. The Hudson's Bay Company hired Robert John Staines, graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, to teach the children of Fort Victoria, and offered him a further stipend to take Holy Orders and serve as chaplain ...
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CRAIGDARROCH CASTLE
Craigdarroch Castle in Victoria, is a historic, Victorian-era Châteauesque mansion comprising 39 rooms and over 20,000 square feet. It was constructed in the 1890s as a family residence for the wealthy coal baron Robert Dunsmuir and his wife Joan. Robert died in 1889, more than a year before construction on the castle was completed ...
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THE EMPRESS HOTEL
The Fairmont Empress (most commonly known as The Empress) is one of the oldest and most famous hotels in Victoria. Located on Government Street facing the Inner Harbour, the Empress has become an iconic symbol for the city itself. The Edwardian, château-style hotel was designed as a terminus hotel for Canadian Pacific's steamship line ...
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DOMINION ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY
Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, located on Observatory Hill, in Saanich, British Columbia, was completed in 1918 by the Canadian government. Proposed and designed by John S. Plaskett in 1910 with the support of the International Union for Cooperation in Solar Research, when the 72-inch aperture telescope was constructed ...
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OGDEN POINT
Ogden Point is a deep water port facility located in the southwestern corner of the city of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Its location in the historic and beautiful city on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, by the Strait of Juan de Fuca not far from Vancouver and Seattle, USA, has made it an attractive cruise ship destination ...
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PACIFIC UNDERSEA GARDENS
The Pacific Undersea Gardens is a 150-foot vessel that was built on the waters of the Inner Harbour. People visiting the site have to walk down the stairs and descend to 15 feet beneath the ocean to look through the many viewing windows of the aquariums that surround the vessel and see the various marine life of coastal British Columbia ...
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PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS
The British Columbia Parliament Buildings are located in Victoria and serve as the seat of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. The Neo-Baroque buildings face north on Belleville street facing the Inner Harbour and diagonally across from The Empress Hotel. The Speaker and the Sergeant-At-Arms are amongst those responsible for the legislative precinct ...
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