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Sights at a Glance VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
1 Inner Harbour 9 Fairmont Empress Hotel
2 Bastion Square 0 Helmcken House Practical Information
Road map 2 B5. * 80,000.
3 Market Square q Royal BC Museum n 812 Wharf St, (250) 953-2033.
4 Chinatown w Thunderbird Park _ TD Victoria International
5 Centennial Square e Parliament Buildings JazzFest (mid-Jun).
6 The Bay Centre r Emily Carr House ∑ tourismvictoria.com
7 St. Andrew’s Cathedral t Beacon Hill Park Transport
8 Victoria Bug Zoo k Victoria Airport, 15 miles (25 km)
N of city. @ Pacific Coach Lines,
P Bastion Square 700 Douglas St. g BC Ferries.
Government St. Open daily. 7
Victoria Airport
25 km (15 miles) This beautifully restored
CHINATOWN McPherson F I S G A R D S T R E E T square faces Victoria’s May to September, the vibrant
Playhouse picturesque harbor open-air Bastion Square Public
CENTENNIAL
SQUARE and contains some Market (Thu–Sat) features local
Victoria C OR M ORAN T S TRE ET
ALLEY
of the city’s oldest
FAN TAN
STORE ST
Train Station City Hall 19th-century produce, handmade arts and
crafts, and live entertainment.
G O V E R N M E N T S T R E E T BROAD STREET S O N S T R E E T the boom era of the
J O H NSON ST BRIDGE Market J O H N PA N D O R A A V E N U E buildings. What were
once luxury hotels and
Square
offices, built during
late 1800s, now house
YAT E S S T R E E T
Victoria boutiques and gift
Harbour Bastion St. Andrew’s shops. Restoration
Square V I E W S TR EE T Q U A D R A S T R E E T began in 1963, when
Centre
Inner The Bay F O R T S T R E E T it was discovered that
the Hudson’s Bay Com-
Harbour W H A R F S T D O U G L A S S T R E E T B L A N S H A R D S T R E E T Cathedral pany’s fur-trading post
Craigdarroch Castle
Fort Victoria (est.1843)
COURTNEY STREET BROUGHTON STREET Art Gallery of once stood on this site.
Victoria Greater Victoria, Today, this pedestrian
Bug Zoo COURTNEY STREET Government House
square includes the 1863
James H U M B O L D T S T MacDonald Block build-
Bay B U R D E T T A V E ing, built in Italianate
Fairmont
Empress Hotel style, with elegant
DOWNTOWN cast-iron columns and Decorative banners lining Market
arched windows. In Square, Victoria
Bus FA I R F IE LD R OA D summer, the square
Terminal
B E LL E VI LLE ST REE T
bustles with visitors P Market Square
O S W E G O S T R E E T Parliament Royal BC H U M B O L D T S T R E E T in one of the several Open 10am–5pm daily.
560 Johnson St. Tel (250) 386-2441.
and workers alike,
who come to lunch
Museum
Closed Dec 25. 7 partial.
Buildings
House
Bastion Square on the corner of
Thunderbird Helmcken ACADEMY CLOSE courtyard cafés. From Located two blocks north of
Park QUADRA ST Johnson Street, Market Square
S U P E R I O R S T R E E T SOUTHG A T E S T R EET boasts some of the finest
S U P E R I O R S T R E E T
Victorian saloon, hotel, and
M I C H I G A N S T R E E T South store façades in the city. Most
M E N Z I E S S T Beacon Hill of the buildings here date from
Park
the 1880s and 1890s, the boom
Park
T O R O N T O S T R E E T AVALON ROAD D O U G L A S S T R E E T period of the Klondike Gold
Rush (see p129). After decades
of neglect, the area received a
much-needed face-lift in 1975.
Today, the square is a shoppers’
S I M C O E S T R E E T
Emily Carr
House JAMES BAY paradise, with a variety of
stores selling everything from
books and jewelry to musical
instruments and other arts
and crafts. Concerts, festivals,
Bustling Bastion Square, dating back to the and other events are held
late 1880s here throughout the year.
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