Learn about the history of James Bay, Victoria’s oldest residential district, from the 1840s to today. This visual tour—illustrated with maps, paintings and photographs—will explore the first government buildings and surrounding homes, and the introduction of industry to the area, including shipyards, grain elevators and chemical plants. You will learn about First Nations’ extensive use of the shoreline and the Hudson’s Bay Company’s establishment of company homes and Beckley Farm.
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