Amazing the things that trigger a memory , yes the good ole days :)

The street people and homeless encampments are so quaint. Victoria is a hell hole compared to the 1970’s.

and still idiotically, three lanes

Why did CP and CN get out of the people business? think of all that beautiful real-estate they used to own. I am so glad the Empress was purchased by The Bosa family and they immediately fixed it up. Canadian culture must start saving these buildings. tear them down put up crap. When do we start caring? in Europe they place so much more value on history. we have no history because we keep tearing it down. the seventies and our god awful architecture..

And as well as the Empress ships, there were the Princess ships running to and from Vancouver. Taking the night sailing was particularly fun. We would arrive and put the car on the boat, have dinner in the dining room (genuine linen and silver), then retire to our stateroom for the night and wake up in Vancouver the next day, ready to disembark the car and venture forth. I was a child at the time and don't know the cost, but it must have been substantial, and when BC Ferries was created by the staunchly free-enterprise Social Credit government, it knocked CPR out of business.

@@Jerichocafe1 the seventies? Newsflash, this is 2021

@@davemacmurchie6982 It took all night to get to Vancouver? I could paddle a rowboat faster than that

Yes I'm sure countless celebrities have stayed there

I don't, I never went there. Wax figurines have never interested me. Miniature World on the other hand i've been to a couple of times

Very much so , even talked with a lady who's father worked for Judge Matthew Baillie Begbie she too was very old but her stories so full of vigor and life !

Vuzzden Riddick I’m from Victoria

Research mud flood and Tartaria, enjoy your plunge down the rabbit hole.

Yes so very much it has changed

Not past, but alive and evolving.

And there is a new Johnson st. bridge

Be honest. Who really like wax museums? Not many. You go once. ...Then that’s it. It’s a creepy gimmick. No tears were shed for that tacky place.

Soap

Actually there was a paint factory down near the old Johnson Street bridge ( the blue one ) . I'm 65 years old and I remember a old fellow telling me when I was young about working at that paint factory . The environmental laws of the day were a thing of the future. He told me that if they had made a bad batch of paint they would dumped it through a hole in the floor into the gorge and the tide would take it out to sea . Working life back then !

There was a BAPCO paint factory at Laurel Point when I was growing up in the 1960s and 70s. The soap works must have been from an earlier era.

+Leslie Starck We need to be a separate colony once again as we are losing this incredible city to the globalist United Nations Agenda 21 and 2030 and dreamer millennial hippies

Parliament. Victoria has the Legislative Buildings. Ottawa has the Parliament Buildings, as does London, England.