Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia province and Western Canada's oldest city. The City began in 1843 as a Hudson Bay Company trading post, named in honour of Queen Victoria. About 300,000 people make their home in the Greater Victoria area.
 The Causeway in Victoria Inner Harbour. Empress Hotel (1908).
Nickname of Victoria is the "City of Gardens", although Victoria is 19th century romance. 

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Golden Stream Park on Vancouver Island. Rain forest.
This park offers views of 600 year old Douglas fir and western red cedar, western yew, red alder, big leaf maple, western hemlock , black cottonwood,  the flowering dogwood, lodgepole pine and arbutus. The arbutus, with its thick leathery evergreen leaves, red-dish trunk and peeling bark, is Canada's only broad-leafed evergreen and is found exclusively on Vancouver Island and on the southwest coast of British Columbia.


Butchart Gardens. 100 anniversary coming in 2004.  Sunken Garden, Rose Garden, Italian Garden, Japanese Garden




Sidney-by-the-Sea or Sidney. Bettween Victoria and Saanich. Exciting store Mineral World.
Mineral World