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#61 Bingo

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Posted 30 July 2016 - 11:17 AM

This 1939 tourist map of Victoria is making the rounds on the internet:

You can zoom in at the website. It's in great shape.


http://www.davidrums...~1&mi=13&trs=14

 

I like the location of Fort Victoria out in the Shelbourne Valley and "Caddy" off of Oak Bay.



#62 Jill

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Posted 30 July 2016 - 12:31 PM

The Fort Victoria thing puzzled me, too, but the lines around it suggest that it's not meant to mark an actual location. Same with the totems at the museum.

 

I guess the red-roofed building out on the unmarked Craigflower Road represents James Dunsmuir's old house, Burleith?



#63 todd

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Posted 30 July 2016 - 09:29 PM

This 1939 tourist map of Victoria is making the rounds on the internet:

You can zoom in at the website. It's in great shape.

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http://www.davidrums...~1&mi=13&trs=14

What's the deal with this crest in a 1939 map?

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It looks a bit different then the current official crest but similar, everywhere I can find reference the official crest dates to 1962? Or at least that was when it was made official? 

 

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#64 todd

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Posted 30 July 2016 - 09:57 PM

I like the location of Fort Victoria out in the Shelbourne Valley and "Caddy" off of Oak Bay.

One old guy with the oldest boat in the Oak Bay Marina at the time, claimed with a dead face that the monster had grabbed a hold of either side of his boat and violently swung it back and forth on multiple occasions in calm waters. Mind you I was very young and he died soon after.


Edited by todd, 30 July 2016 - 10:12 PM.


#65 Rob Randall

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Posted 24 October 2019 - 03:57 PM

Paul Quin took this photo with what I think is the best image of the ghost of the old Woodward's beneath theMayfair Hudson's Bay sign. You can clearly see the "ward's".

 

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#66 Nparker

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Posted 24 October 2019 - 05:35 PM

26 years since Woodward's closed up shop and the owners of Mayfair have never properly cleaned or revamped that section of the facade.



#67 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 24 October 2019 - 05:38 PM

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you know i don't recall woodward's being all that spectacular of a store.  i could take it or leave it.  

 

https://www.timescol...-month-1.657809

 

i always preferred eatons and the bay.


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