• When: You decide. Available daily, rain or shine, by reservation only.
• Duration: 6-7 hours (approximately)--we will stop for lunch, snacks or restrooms as frequently as you request--cost of meals and entertainment entrances you opt for (museums, gardens, etc.) are not included.
• Key sights:
Butchart Gardens explained (visit is optional)
Craidarroch Castle explained (visit is optional)
Imperial Oil and the Visitor Information Centre
Belmont Building and the strange Time Ball
Hudson Bay Fort (we were a fort!)
Empress Hotel--a mortal headache for its creator.
Gold Rush invasion--that is our why!
Captain Cook and George Vancouver were here?!
Legislative (Parliament) Buildings controversy
Queen Victoria's Monument (Queen or Empress?)
Monument to the Glorious Dead
Mifflin Gibbs' Missing Monument
Excentric Emily Carr's Monument
The Netherlands Carrillon story
The Royal Museum (it was Douglas')
Our First Nations Totems explained
Crystal Pool and Tarzan
What is Helmcken's House?
St. Ann's First School
(human) Birdcage Walk
The Robson's House
Emily Carr's House ...and much more!
Homecoming Sailor's emotional monument
Dominion (yes) Customs House
Windsor Hotel ridiculous explosion
Roger's Chocolates a tragic success story
Pemberton, Weiler and Union Club Bldgs (Victorian old-timers)
Bank of BC, a bard and a banker--Robert Service's story
Royal Bank robbery (Munro's)
Morris the Tobacconist (and his standing lighter)
Fort's yellow brick road
Bastion Square (what were the brideships?)
ex-Maritime Museum (jail, and gallows, and...)
Rithet Bldg. and the old fort well
Wharf St. (Finlayson & Yates fur storehouses)
(poor) Waddington Alley (sodas before Coke)
Johnson St. & defunct Strauss' Bridge: a Golden Gate precursor
where is Market Sq. roof gone?
Chinatown taxes and discrimination
Old Opium Factories (yes, we had twelve!)
Fan Tan Alley, gambling & police action
Gate of Harmonious (compound) Interests
Yen Wo Society Bldg. and a half
Chinese Benevolent Associations: have an orange?
Chinese Pharmacy & School
Masonic Temple (yes, masonic founders)
The new old Hudson Bay Bldg.
City Hall
Oldest Synagogue in Canada
St. Andrews Roman Catholic Cathedral
Carnegie-donated Library
old Fort St. 'Antiques Row'
St. Andrews Presbyterian Church
Weiler's Bldg. sub-sidewalks and fun Pagliacci's
Eaton Centre contraption
Trounce Alley--our first street-malls
Oak Bay, Uplands, Cordoba Bay, Royal Oak, Sidney, Malahat and Langford (out-of-downtown areas--all optional. You choose.)
...and much more!
• Price: US$150.00 p/p (transportation is included)
• Note: minimum of two people (if just one person: US$200)
• Meet: Our guide will meet you at your hotel (or at the ferry terminal), and will later take you back there, or to some place you choose.. Get printable directions clicking here for map.
• Note: After this ultra-enjoyable visit you will thoroughly know Victoria, and will be able to fully enjoy its attractions and know its peculiar history. It includes over 60 main city landmarks (different from our other walks). This tour includes transportation but entrance fees to attractions, food, snacks and drinks and gratuities are not included.
• Description: Scroll (way) down for detailed information!
• When: You decide. Available daily, rain or shine, by reservation only.
• Duration: 6-7 hours (approximately)--we will stop for lunch, snacks or restrooms as frequently as you request--cost of meals and entertainment entrances you opt for (museums, gardens, etc.) are not included.
• Key sights:
Butchart Gardens explained (visit is optional)
Craidarroch Castle explained (visit is optional)
Imperial Oil and the Visitor Information Centre
Belmont Building and the strange Time Ball
Hudson Bay Fort (we were a fort!)
Empress Hotel--a mortal headache for its creator.
Gold Rush invasion--that is our why!
Captain Cook and George Vancouver were here?!
Legislative (Parliament) Buildings controversy
Queen Victoria's Monument (Queen or Empress?)
Monument to the Glorious Dead
Mifflin Gibbs' Missing Monument
Excentric Emily Carr's Monument
The Netherlands Carrillon story
The Royal Museum (it was Douglas')
Our First Nations Totems explained
Crystal Pool and Tarzan
What is Helmcken's House?
St. Ann's First School
(human) Birdcage Walk
The Robson's House
Emily Carr's House ...and much more!
Homecoming Sailor's emotional monument
Dominion (yes) Customs House
Windsor Hotel ridiculous explosion
Roger's Chocolates a tragic success story
Pemberton, Weiler and Union Club Bldgs (Victorian old-timers)
Bank of BC, a bard and a banker--Robert Service's story
Royal Bank robbery (Munro's)
Morris the Tobacconist (and his standing lighter)
Fort's yellow brick road
Bastion Square (what were the brideships?)
ex-Maritime Museum (jail, and gallows, and...)
Rithet Bldg. and the old fort well
Wharf St. (Finlayson & Yates fur storehouses)
(poor) Waddington Alley (sodas before Coke)
Johnson St. & defunct Strauss' Bridge: a Golden Gate precursor
where is Market Sq. roof gone?
Chinatown taxes and discrimination
Old Opium Factories (yes, we had twelve!)
Fan Tan Alley, gambling & police action
Gate of Harmonious (compound) Interests
Yen Wo Society Bldg. and a half
Chinese Benevolent Associations: have an orange?
Chinese Pharmacy & School
Masonic Temple (yes, masonic founders)
The new old Hudson Bay Bldg.
City Hall
Oldest Synagogue in Canada
St. Andrews Roman Catholic Cathedral
Carnegie-donated Library
old Fort St. 'Antiques Row'
St. Andrews Presbyterian Church
Weiler's Bldg. sub-sidewalks and fun Pagliacci's
Eaton Centre contraption
Trounce Alley--our first street-malls
Oak Bay, Uplands, Cordoba Bay, Royal Oak, Sidney, Malahat and Langford (out-of-downtown areas--all optional. You choose.)
...and much more!
• Price: US$150.00 p/p (transportation is included)
• Note: minimum of two people (if just one person: US$200)
• Meet: Our guide will meet you at your hotel (or at the ferry terminal), and will later take you back there, or to some place you choose.. Get printable directions clicking here for map
• Note: After this ultra-enjoyable visit you will thoroughly know Victoria, and will be able to fully enjoy its attractions and know its peculiar history. It includes over 60 main city landmarks (different from our other walks). This tour includes transportation but entrance fees to attractions, food, snacks and drinks and gratuities are not included.
