Victoria

Victoria (48˚26'00" 123˚22'00" SE end of Vancouver I), Victoria Harbour (48˚25'16" 123˚23'34" Between Victoria and Esquimalt). The largest city on Vancouver I is named after Queen Victoria (1819–1901), who succeeded to the British crown in 1837. The HBC’s main depot in the PNW in the early 1800s was at Ft Vancouver on the Columbia R. Anticipating that the border between the region’s British and US territories would eventually be farther N, the company began looking for a new HQ in the...

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