Sign in Using FacebookVictoria Guide » Victoria Attractions & Activities » Victoria Attractions & Activities Search
VictoriaAttractions & Activities
Refine Your Results
Category: Victoria Attractions & Activities
Address: Fisgard St, Victoria, BC
This 6-block area is the oldest Chinatown settlement in North America, having been founded in 1858. Narrow Fan Tan Alley (just four feet wide at each end), is historically important as the center of 19th century Chinatown's legal opium industry. Now it is a great place to pick up exotic herbs and vegetables, luxurious...
Category: Victoria Attractions & Activities
Address: 1050 Joan Crescent, Victoria, BC V8S 3L5
Craigdarroch is Gaelic for "rocky oak place" and this Victorian mansion does afford beautiful views of the Olympic Peninsula. After he worked his way up from indentured servitude to be the richest man in British Columbia, Robert Dunsmuir built this 4-story, 39-room home for his wife. Completed in 1890, Dunsmuir never...
Craigflower Manor and Schoolhouse
Category: Museums - Victoria Attractions & Activities
Address: 110 Island Hwy, Craigflower Rd and Admirals Rd, Victoria, BC V9B 1M5
This early farming community was organized by a subsidiary of the Hudson's Bay Company to transform the area into a permanent settlement and to reduce the need for imports from abroad. Established in 1853 along the Victoria Gorge Waterway on the lands of the Kosapsom Nation, ancient artifacts have been found dating...
Category: Victoria Attractions & Activities
Address: 207 Government St, Victoria, BC V8V 2K3
Born in 1871, she called her family's house in Victoria home until leaving at age 17 to study painting in the United States and Europe. She returned to Victoria in 1913 and her love of nature and animals led her to remote corners of British Columbia where she drew inspiration from the wilderness and native people....
Category: Attractions - Victoria Attractions & Activities
Address: 3800 Finnerty Rd, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC V8P 5C2
The University of Victoria's amazing collection of rhododendrons is a must see for any amateur gardener or plant lover. There are more than 500 species and hybrids here, many started from seed. The 6-acre site is beautifully landscaped with an additional 1600 trees, bushes and plants. Prime viewing is bloom time in...
Category: Attractions - Victoria Attractions & Activities
Address: 505 Quayle Rd, Horticulture Centre of the Pacific, Victoria, BC V9E 2J7
A registered non-profit organization, the HCP manages acres of demonstration gardens and greenspace in addition to an accredited university, the Pacific Horticulture College. The site is comprised of about 100 acres, but only about five acres are cultivated. Themed gardens include a Children's Garden, drought tolerant...
Category: Victoria Attractions & Activities
Address: 2005 Sooke Rd, Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC V8S 3L5
Hatley Park is Canada's largest National Historic Site. It originated as a 565-acre Edwardian estate built for local coal baron James Dunsmuir. Today the grounds encompass the original mansion, a 1914 Lord and Burnham greenhouse, carefully preserved old-growth forest, miles of trails, a university, and several acres...
Category: Museums - Victoria Attractions & Activities
Address: 7321 Lochside Dr, (Saanich Historical Artifacts Society), Saanichton, BC V8M 1W4
A 29-acre site devoted to the display of the Saanich Historical Artifacts Society's massive collection, Heritage Acres also includes numerous trails and picnic spots. Original and replica buildings (including a school house, log cabin, blacksmith, mercantile, chapel, boat house and sawmill) depict BC life circa 1900....
Category: Victoria Attractions & Activities
Address: San Juan Islands, WA 98245
To visit the Lambiel Museum on orcas Island, you phone the museum director—who also happens to be the owner, chief curator, and lead docent—and make an appointment. Leo Lambiel has collected more than 900 works of San Juan Islands artists, and the quality here is high indeed. Open daily. Tour by appointment only.
Category: Victoria Attractions & Activities
Address: San Juan Islands, WA 98245
If time permits, check out the Lime Kiln Lighthouse. It’s a field station for whale research and still operates as an automated navigation aid.
