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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DTG_st-anns-academy_Victoria-BC.html
For over a century, St. Ann's played an important role in the educational life of Western Canada. It served as the regional motherhouse for the Sisters of St. Ann, the major female Roman Catholic teaching and nursing order in British Columbia, whi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DTF_sir-anthony-musgrave_Victoria-BC.html
A career Imperial civil servant, Anthony Musgrave served as governor of Newfoundland (1864 - 69) and British Columbia (1869 - 71). Both terms of office were marked by a strong personal effort to encourage the two colonies to unite with the new Can…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DTE_royal-theatre_Victoria-BC.html
Constructed in 1912-1913 during the Victoria building boom, this structure originally opened as the Royal Victoria Theatre, owned by a group of local entrepreneurs. Theatres of this type, presenting live dramatic, musical and vaudeville performanc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DTD_robert-dunsmuir_Victoria-BC.html
Born into a family of Ayrshire coalmasters, Robert Dunsmuir achieved renown as a leading Canadian businessman. He developed the Wellington Mine near Nanaimo, which soon made him one of the richest men in Canada and, through his labour practices, o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DTC_modeste-demers_Victoria-BC.html
Born near Levis, Demers was trained at the Seminary of Quebec, ordained in 1836 and sent in 1838 as a missionary to the Columbia. His ministry extended from the interior of British Columbia to Oregon. First pastor of St. John's Church of Oregon Ci…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DTB_estate-of-the-lieutenant-governor-of-british-columbia_Victoria-BC.html
This magnificent estate, residence of the Crown's representatives in British Columbia, is a cultural landscape that boasts a long and remarkable association with this high office. In 1865 the government of the colony purchased Cary Castle, a house…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DTA_esquimalt-and-nanaimo-railway-roundhouse_Victoria-BC.html
This imposing brick roundhouse is a particularly fine example of an industrial structure associated with the steam railway era in Canada. Built in 1913, the ten-stall roundhouse with attached machine, boiler and blacksmith's shops is part of a rem…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DT9_craigdarroch_Victoria-BC.html
Built for coal magnate Robert Dunsmuir, Craigdarroch symbolized the desire of late 19th-century industrialists to assert their social position through conspicuous displays of wealth. Completed in 1890, the eclectic mansion features exquisite detai…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DT8_congregation-emanu-el_Victoria-BC.html
The Congregation Emanu-El Synagogue was built in 1863, just five years after the arrival if the first members of Victoria's Jewish community during the Fraser River gold rush period. Its opening was widely celebrated in Victoria for, despite their…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DT7_chinese-cemetery_Victoria-BC.html
This place, chosen by the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association in 1903 for its harmonized elements of Nature expressing the principles of "feng shui", is a significant legacy of the first Canadians of Chinese origin. Traditionally it was a …