Downtown (Victoria)

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The Hudson Bay Company choose this area over Esquimalt in 1843 to build a trading fort. Known as Fort Comasack. Later renamed Fort Victoria after the Queen of Victoria. This was the beginning and soon settlers came to farm.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Victoria
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Coordinates:   48°25'30"N   123°21'55"W
This article was last modified 13 years ago