Main entry:

Mindenhall, Dorothy.

Title & Author:

Unbuilt Victoria / Dorothy Mindenhall.

Publication:

Toronto : Dundurn, ©2012.

Description:

240 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-233) and index.
Machine generated contents note: GOVERNMENT -- ch. 1 City Hall -- ch. 2 Centennial Square -- ch. 3 Cathedral Hill -- ch. 4 Legislative Precinct -- ch. 5 Convention Centres -- ch. 6 City Beautification -- LEISURE, LEARNING, AND CULTURE -- ch. 7 Beacon Hill Park -- ch. 8 Gorge Waterway -- ch. 9 Universities -- University of Victoria -- Royal Roads University -- ch. 10 Art Gallery of Greater Victoria -- ch. 11 Theatres -- Globe Theatre and the Bankside Elizabethan Village -- City Lights Theatre -- HARBOURS -- ch. 12 Victoria Harbour -- ch. 13 Wharf Street Waterfront -- ch. 14 Old Songhees Reserve -- ch. 15 Belleville Street Waterfront -- ch. 16 Oak Bay and Sidney Harbours -- TRANSPORTATION SCHEMES -- ch. 17 CPR Terminal -- ch. 18 Freeways -- ch. 19 Gordon Head Memorial Air Park -- ch. 20 Gorge Inland Waterway -- RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS -- ch. 21 St. Ann's Academy -- ch. 22 Christ Church Cathedral -- ch. 23 Ukrainian Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker -- COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL PROJECTS -- ch. 24 Tourist Attractions -- ch. 25 Shopping Centres -- ch. 26 Hotels -- ch. 27 Business Buildings -- Mozart House -- Old Imperial Oil Station: Le Club Balisage -- Pagoda Restaurant -- Mystery Building.
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Summary:

"For most people, resident and visitor alike, Victoria, British Columbia, is a time capsule of Victorian and Edwardian buildings. From a modest fur-trading post of the Hudson's Bay Company it grew to be the province's major trading centre. Then the selection of Vancouver as the terminus of the transcontinental railway in the 1880s, followed by a smallpox epidemic that closed the port in the 1890s, resulted in decline. Victoria succeeded in reinventing itself as a tourist destination, based on the concept of nostalgia for all things English, stunning scenery, and investment opportunities. In the modernizing boom after the Second World War attempts were made to move the city's built environment into the mainstream, but the prospect of Victoria's becoming like any other North American city did not win public approval. Unbuilt Victoria examines some of the architectural plans that were proposed but rejected. That some of them were ever dreamed of will probably amaze, that others never made it might well be a matter of regret."--Publisher's website.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9781459701748
1459701747

Subject:

City planning British Columbia Australia Victoria History.
City planning British Columbia Victoria History.
Urbanisme Colombie-Britannique Victoria Histoire.
Buildings.
City planning.
Victoria (B.C.) History.
Victoria (B.C.) Buildings, structures, etc. History.
Victoria (C.-B.) Histoire.
Victoria (C.-B.) Constructions Histoire.
British Columbia Victoria.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 277918
Call No.: BIB 213045
Status: Available