VICTORIA ISLAND
We only stayed in Vancouver for two full days before the cruise. We spent the first day on a guided tour traveling by ferry to VICTORIA ISLAND. The city of Victoria is in fact the capital of British Colombia.
There is some lovely scenery on the ferry trip.
Ferry boats go to various islands in the sound.
This is the official start of the 7,476 km Trans-Canada Highway that ends in ST. Johns, Newfoundland.
Canada Goose
Terrance Stanley Fox was a Canadian athlete, humanitarian, and cancer research activist. In 1980, having had one leg amputated due to cancer, he embarked on a cross-Canada run to raise money and awareness for cancer research
The Emily Carr statue depicts the artist with her dog, Billie, at her feet and a monkey on her shoulder
Emily Carr was a Canadian artist who was inspired by the monumental art and villages of the First Nations
The Legislative Assembly building in Victoria
The Empress Hotel, Victoria
Orca floral display
Lamppost near what used to be the gallows
Don't ask me!
Example of the original wooden pavement.
Market Square shopping precinct
Fan Tan Alley is known for being the narrowest commercial street in North America, being less than 0.9 m wide at its narrowest point. In old Victoria’s male-oriented Chinatown, gambling dens and brothels operated side by side. Gambling was illegal, but the Chinese knew they could always stay one step ahead of the law. Fan Tan Alley, barely one-and-a-half metres wide at both ends, was guarded by watchmen behind solid wood doors. Entrances to buildings in the centre section of the alley led to a deliberately confusing maze of connecting rooms, staircases, and rooftop escape routes. By the time some hapless police officer had managed to make his entrance, the gamblers were nowhere in sight.
The Umbrella Academy ? (TV series)
A tight squeeze at 553 1/2
Normal 553 beside it
Entrance gate to Chinatown
A floral display for the ladies - or men with a shoe fetish !
Murchies is a popular coffee shop, but it takes a while to get served due to the long queues
The Hudsons Bay Company was chartered in 1670 by King Charles II as a fur trading enterprise.
Would also work if you substitute the "B"s for "W"s !
Waterfront outside the Empress Hotel
Love the name of the company !
The coastal Salish are a group of Native American ethnicities on the Pacific coast of North America bound by a common culture, kinship, and languages.
Taken from the ferry boat in harbour. I saw a commotion in the water. I thought it was fish but it turned out to be a family of Sea Otters teaching their young how to fish.
