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Back in 1977, at the bottom of Bastion Square where Darcy's is today, was a restaurant called Ye Olde Spaghetti Foundry. It has absolutely no relationship to the modern Old Spaghetti Factory.
Bastion Square is a historic pedestrian mall in Victoria, British Columbia. The square has a ceremonial entry arch at View and Government streets, and the exit on the Wharf Street side opens to a staircase with a view of the Inner Harbour.
- The Building’S Sordid Past
- The Courthouses Present Day Situation
- The Unsure Future of The Historic Building
Tiedemann designed the first BC Legislative buildings which were our current Legislature’s predecessor. They were dismissed by many and called the “bird cages” by the media. Following designing the Legislative buildings, he penned the designs for the first west coast lighthouses at Fisgard Island and Race Rocks. He then undertook several surveying ...
In 2014, the museum received news that they would have to vacate the building from the province who controlled the property due to its historic site status. The building did not live up to modern-day seismic code in particular, and because of this, it could not house any occupants for business or housing purposes until upgrades could be implemented...
Victoria Buzz reached out to see what the future holds for the historic building that’s been a fixture of Victoria since its construction over 130 years ago. The cost of repairs appears to be the main reason the building has been unoccupied for nearly 10 years. “The province has completed a seismic/structural update, cost update, and multi-criteria...
Bastion Square was part of 19th century Victoria’s leading commercial district and contains many historic 19th buildings, several of which are on the City of Victoria Heritage Building Registry and the Canadian Register of Historic Places. Bastion Square, entrance from Wharf Street.
May 7, 2024 · He recalled playing in Victoria “in a little place called Harpo’s,” the iconic live music venue in Bastion Square that operated from 1975 until 1995.
- Mike Devlin
This historic place is a two-storey nineteenth-century commercial building, facing the Inner Harbour waterway, on a sloped lot at the corner of Wharf Street and Bastion Square, an historic plaza in the heart of the Old Town District.
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Sep 15, 2021 · Bastion Square is often called the “Heart of Haunted Victoria” because virtually every building that rings the square is said to host a ghost or two. Even before colonial settlers arrived, indigenous communities believed this area had strong mystical powers.
