Unbuilt Victoria celebrates the city that is, and laments the city
that could have been. 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.
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