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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DTI_tiger-company-fire-hall_Victoria-BC.html
The Tiger Company was one of three volunteer fire companies dedicated to protecting Victoria's growing business district during the late 1800s. By the 1870s, there was a need to replace the Tiger's original fire hall on Johnson Street but it was n…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMX56_mcpherson-playhouse_Victoria-BC.html
Named in Honour of Thomas Shanks McPhersonBorn Airdrie, Scotland, prominent business man, philanthropist and citizen of Victoria for fifty-three years, who died at the age of 89 years on 3rd, December 1962, and under whose will a bequest including…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMX55_victoria-fire-department-headquarters_Victoria-BC.html
You are near the site of the Victoria Fire Department Headquarters, which served downtown Victoria from 1899 to 1959.HistoryVictoria's central business district grew dramatically during the 1880s and 1890s. More "modern' buildings in size and valu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMX54_japanese-internment_Victoria-BC.html
On April 22, 1942, 273 men, women and children of Japanese ancestry were exiled from their homes in the Greater Victoria area. None of the survivors of this event ever returned to Victoria to re-establish a home.
On August 4, 1992, 67 survivors…