Victoria West (Victoria) | neighbourhood

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When the Hudson's Bay Company arrived in Victoria in 1842 to establish Fort Victoria, the neighbourhood now known as Victoria West was the site of a village of the Songhees, the aboriginal people of the Victoria area. The Songhees called the Gorge waterway Camossung, named for a girl who turned to stone at the Gorge waterfall. Songhees longhouses once extended from Songhees Point to beyond the present day Johnson Street Bridge. The Songhees people were relocated in 1911 to permit industrial development of Victoria West.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_West,_Greater_Victoria
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Coordinates:   48°26'1"N   123°22'59"W
This article was last modified 15 years ago