Historic Victoria: Market Square on Shaw TV Victoria
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Market Square in Victoria - Canada
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Victoria, British Columbia, Canada - Market Square HD (2017)
Market Square is a town square and shopping center in Victoria, British Columbia. There are more than 35 shops, restaurants, and clubs in the square.
Victoria, Canada | Street Walk
Victoria, Canada | Street Walk
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Victoria, capital of British Columbia, sits on the craggy southern end of Vancouver Island. With abundant parkland, it’s known for outdoor activities. The city's British colonial past shows in its Victorian architecture, including stately Craigdarroch Castle mansion. Butchart Gardens, with 55 acres of vivid floral displays, plus statuary, water features and a carousel, is one of many formal gardens in the city.
Sunday Market - Victoria, B.C. Canada
This well-known Sunday market features an eclectic mix of arts, crafts, imports, and entertainment.
Bastion Square, Victoria BC Canada
Bastion Square is a historic pedestrian mall in Victoria, British Columbia. The square has a ceremonial entry arch at View and Government streets, and the exit on the Wharf Street side opens to a staircase with a view of the Inner Harbour.
Part of the original Fort Victoria, find some of Victoria’s finest restaurants, pubs and cafés (and some of the sunniest patios) in Bastion Square. The area is also part of a bustling outdoor summer market.
The square sits in the heart of downtown overlooking the Inner Harbour and includes several notable late-19th Century landmarks:
•The Court House (designed by architect H.O. Tiedeman) was the first concrete building in Victoria, built in 1889.
•The Law Chambers, designed by F.M. Rattenbury, was built in the late 1800s.
•Burnes House, originally a hotel in 1882 (then a brothel and later a warehouse) was restored in 1967.
•Strousse Warehouse was built in 1885 as a supply centre for gold miners.
•The Board of Trade building was built in 1892 by A.M. Muir.
Be sure to pass through Helmcken Alley for a more sordid look at the square’s past. Once a jailhouse where executions took place and a graveyard for unclaimed bodies of prisoners, it is said to still be haunted since the prison’s demolition in 1885.
Events held at the square include the Bastion Square Public Market, the Holiday Market, and the Art Walk.
VW van on fire by Market Square Victoria BC Canada
VW on fire outside of Market Square, Victoria fire and PD on scene in YYJ. Around 2 PM on Saturday afternoon a VW camper van was on fire and fully engulfed in flames (reaching about 15 ft high) was raging as the Vic Fire Dept was on site (500 block of Johnson St) to put out the flames before the vehicle exploded or the flames could spread. Several vehicles parked beside the van were likely damaged during the event. Good job by the Fire crew for being on location so fast... filmed by @gletham
Lower Johnson, Braod Street & Market Square Victoria
Visit the vibrant exciting commercial district in the lower Johnson (also known as LoJo), Broad Street and Market Square area of Victoria British Columbia for some of the hippest, funkiest and most unique stores and restaurants in the city!
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Victoria a beautiful city with old architecture and nature to spare
Uptown Summer Market, Victoria B.C.
Uptown is hosting their first Summer Market on Uptown Boulevard this August. They have partnered with the Crafted Farmhouse Market to bring the Boulevard to life with an all day market featuring the best of local artisans, taste-makers and curators on Vancouver Island.
Top 10 Things to do in Victoria B.C.
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If you are wondering what to do in Victoria B.C., then this is the vlog for you. We are going to share with you our top ten things to do in Victoria B.C. Put on your pedometers and fitbits because most of them are in walking distance in downtown Victoria and you will have bragging rights about the number of steps you walk each day. Some of them are a short drive out of town if you have a car. We have shared our best free things to do in Victoria and some of the things that are well worth the money.
#10 Whale Watching Tours with BC Whale Tours
Whale watching in Victoria BC is a once in a lifetime opportunity. It is worth the extra money to go out on a whale watching tour. If you are in Victoria and you have the time and money, make sure you go whale watching at least once.
#9 Fan Tan Alley in Chinatown
One of the most interesting things to do in Victoria BC is visit Fan Tam Alley in Chinatown. The Alley is great for photography and shopping. My personal favourite is Kid Sister Ice Cream.
#8 Shopping in Victoria BC, Lower Johnson to Government Street
My favourite place to shop in Victoria BC are the shops on Lower Johnson and then walk along Government Street. There are lots of independently owned businesses with local artisans that you will not find anywhere else.
#7 Victoria Bakery
Victoria BC has no shortage of fabulous bakeries. Our personal favourite is Crust Bakery on Fort Street. I would recommend their cronuts, a cross between a croissant and a donut.
#6 Beacon Hill Park Petting Zoo - Running of the Goats, Goat Stampede!
The gate to the Beacon Hill Children’s Farm open’s at 10 am in the summer and everyday at 10:10 am there is the adorable “Running of the Goats,” 30 seconds of sheer joy.
#5 Beacon Hill Park
Beacon Hill Park is over 200 acres of gorgeous parkland in downtown Victoria BC. There are bridges, lakes, ponds, paths, gardens, trees, flowers, running streams, ducks, birds, wildlife, eagles, and blue herons. It is a beautiful place to go for a walk or sit on a park bench.
#4 Goldstream Provincial Park
If you have a car you can take a short drive out of town to Goldstream Provincial Park. The park boasts some beautiful old-growth trees including Douglas firs and Western Red Cedars. Some of them are 600 years old. You can walk the flat trails around the lower part of the park or if you are feeling adventurous take a hike up to the Railway Trestle.
#3 Mount Doug (Mount Douglas Park)
Again if you have a car you can drive out to Saanich and take a drive to the top of Mount Doug from noon to dusk each day. Churchill Drive allows you to drive to the top seven days a week, or if you are feeling fit, you can take any of the trails from the bottom to the summit for spectacular 360 degree views of the city.
#2 Eat at Red Fish Blue Fish
Our favourite restaurant in Victoria BC is Red Fish Blue Fish. Red Fish Blue Fish actually isn’t a restaurant, you have to line up and for a long time at an up-cycled cargo container in the Inner Harbour for your fish and chips or tacones. Then you get to sit on the wooden pier and eat your seafood with a view of the sea planes, sailboats, kayakers and seals in the inner harbour. I will say it again, is worth the line up!
#1 Feed the Seals at Oak Bay Marina
Our number one thing to do in Victoria BC is to feed the seals at Oak Bay Marina. The harbour seals are super fun and entertaining as you throw them frozen fish pieces. You will love capturing their cute faces for your instagram feed. This is always the highlight of our visitors’ stay.
So there you have it. Our top 10 things to do in Victoria BC. What are your favourite things to do in Victoria BC? Would you change the order of our list? What would you add? What would you take away? Leave your comments, let us know.
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Winter Travelling in Victoria British Columbia
In my latest youtube video, my family and I traveled to Victoria, British Columbia during the winter. We had a blast visiting several attractions and made a video to highlight some of the best of what Victoria has to offer.
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Places we visited included:
1) Hotel Zed Victoria
2) Spoons Diner
3) Coombs, Old Country Market (aka Goats on the Roof)
4) Rathtrevor Beach Provincial Park
5) La Tortilla Mexicana
6) Downtown Victoria
7) Don Mee
8) Victoria Harbor
9) Tout De Sweet
10) Munro's Books
11) The Bubble Tea Place
12) Market Square
13) Mount Douglas Park
14) The Butchart Gardens
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There's so much more to the history of Canada's Chinatowns and the country's Chinese Canadian heritage—do not stop with us. Our aim is to make our channel a gateway drug. A great starting point, which proved an invaluable resource for us, is Simon Fraser University's community-based research initiative 'From C to C: Chinese Canadian Stories of Immigration':
This episode doesn't even break the surface of what is a deep well of stories, historical figures, and pivotal events through which Chinese immigration shaped the course of the country's history. In our eyes, we no longer think of the colonization of Canada through the lens of two nations interacting with the Indigenous, but three. So next time you step through a paifang or Chinese arch in your town or city, or see a Chinese restaurant or street sign, we hope you stop and consider the historical weight behind them.
We've barely touched on the construction of the railroad, we haven't even mentioned the riots in Vancouver, we haven't focused on the Chinese diaspora across the nation, nor have we even uttered a word about Chinese Canadian cuisine—down the road, there's a whole series of episodes to make if the channel survives.
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The image we included as a depiction of Lee Chong (his name is spelled differently in many different sources—the frontrunners being Lee Chong and Lee Chang) is only that: a representation. One of the roadblocks to this episode was the fact the era of Chinese Canadian history from 1858 to 1900 is sparsely documented (or too expensive for us to license). Lee Chong would/should be considered a Founding Father of Victoria, but there is no visual evidence for him—only written documentation, newspaper ads, and signage—and we think that puts sharing his story at a disadvantage. We want to bring history to life so viewers are able to picture/identify with historical figures regardless of the country's shoddily documented past, so when there is no visual record of a historical heavyweight like Lee Chong we supplement their presence with edited, historically accurate portraits of other people. To us, it's the same thing as modern re-enactments with actors—if not more accurate. For Lee Chong, we found a photo of a late 19th Century, Southern Chinese, gentleman—a business magnate. His wife? Well, the Canadian Consulate General of Hong Kong and Macao referred to the image we used as being a portrait of Mrs. Kwong Lee (that's the only way she's ever referred to)—we suspect it was a portrait of a different Chinese Canadian woman that has been run through a rumour mill, but it remains historically accurate in terms of location and time period. Our other option was to have black silhouettes or omit their characters entirely—we hope you agree it was worth it to do it this way.
If other arches were built between 1912 and 1981, we could not find them. We referred to a research exhibit (which included a focus on the arches) put together by the University of Victoria that used to be available to the public a few years ago, but has since been made private, solely for the eyes of students of the university (which is pretty lame).
Addendum (there's much more than this):
The Chinook Language (or Jargon). We initially had a section in the episode dedicated to outlining how Chinese immigrants were able to build successful businesses in a land of many different alien languages . The tool they used to communicate was a jargon developed solely in the Pacific Northwest for the purposes of trading and communicating between the plethora of different nationals who flooded there during the gold rush(es). Due to the episode's length, and the fact the Chinook language deserves its very own episode, we had to cut it.
The Bachelor Society of Chinese Canadians up to World War II. In previous cuts, we had a section detailing some of the ramifications of the Head Tax Bill (a bill that required all Chinese immigrants to pay hundreds of dollars to enter the country—in modern times, tens of thousands). We had to cut it to keep the pace moving, but the focus was on the fact that the vast majority of Chinese immigrants were men—98% or so. Chinese women were either married or sex workers, and the Head Tax made it impossible to bring families across the ocean. It's a story for another episode focused on Vancouver and Alberta.
If you're ever in Victoria's Chinatown, check out the totally-not-a-tourist-trap Fan Tan Cafe because the food there is great.
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Victoria, Canada: Top Ten Things To Do
This charming city on Vancouver Island is centered around a picturesque inner harbor with historic hotels and Parliament buildings as the backdrop. Here are the top activities:
1) Harbour: boats, live entertainment, & dining
2) Parliament Buildings: tour the provincial Capital
3) Whale Watching: see Orca, Hunchback and Gray whales
4) Royal BC Museum: cultural, natural and First Nations history
5) Empress Hotel: National Historic Site of Canada
6) Fisherman's Wharf: waterfront dining and entertainment
7) Craigdarroch Castle: historic home with period furnishing
8) Chinatown: culture, food, shopping, history & entertainment
9) Beacon Hill Park: totem poles, gardens, walking paths & animals
10) Butchart Gardens: beautiful flowers and landscaping
Drive the Pacific Marine Circle Route with amazing scenery, coastline, harbors, giant trees and more. Take a ferry or Seaplane to Vancouver.
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Victoria BC Graffiti Documentary Trailer 2018 (British Columbia, Canada)
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