{"id":1193,"date":"2016-05-20T03:10:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T08:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2016-05-20T03:45:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T08:45:49","slug":"victoria-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=1193","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Canada is a great place to spend a day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Victoria Canada<\/strong> is a great city\u00a0to spend a nice spring day. We stopped for a day in the Canadian town\u00a0while taking a two day cruise on Holland America between\u00a0Vancouver and\u00a0Seattle. Victoria is located on Vancouver Island\u00a060 miles to the\u00a0southwest\u00a0from\u00a0the city of Vancouver, which lies\u00a0across the Strait of Georgia. The Emerald City of Seattle is located\u00a0another 62 miles to the southeast of Victoria, across the Straight of Juan de Fuca. The city is\u00a0the capital city of the province of British Columbia, and\u00a0has a population of over 80,000 residents. The surrounding metropolitan area adds another 270,000 people, putting it at\u00a0\u00a015th overall on the list of the most populated areas in Canada. The city got its\u00a0name\u00a0from Queen Victoria of England, and was founded\u00a0in 1843.<\/p>\n

Victoria Canada things to do:<\/h2>\n

Victoria is well known for its collection of\u00a0historic buildings, including the Provincial Legislature buildings from 1897, and the Empress Hotel completed in 1908. However, there are many other things to see.<\/p>\n

Victoria Canada is probably most well known for\u00a0The\u00a0Butchart Gardens.\u00a0<\/b>The gardens welcome\u00a0close to a million visitors every year, and has been designated as a Canadian National Historic Site. The gardens\u00a0were created by Robert Prim Butchart, and his wife Jennie. The couple created\u00a0their fortune from manufacturing cement. They moved to the Victoria area from their original home in the province of Ontario due to the heavy limestone deposits found in the area. They opened a quarry near their new home in 1904. In 1907, a Japanese garden designer named Isaburo Kishida came to Victoria to create a tea garden for the Esquimalt Gorge Park. The garden was a huge hit,\u00a0prompting many other prominent citizens to commission Kishida to create a Japanese garden for their own estate, including Jennie Butchart. When the Butchart quarry ran out of limestone, Jennie set forth to\u00a0turn it into the Sunken Gardens that were completed in 1921. You can discover more about the Butchart Gardens by visiting\u00a0www.butchartgardens.com<\/a><\/p>\n

The city has a great little Fisherman’s wharf<\/strong> area. The wharf is located just around the corner from Victoria’s Inner Harbour. There\u00a0are allot of great\u00a0restaurants at the wharf, including the famous Barb’s Fish & Chips. You can also catch a whale watching tour, or just hang out and watch the seals that like to “show off” for the tourists. The city’s Chinatown<\/strong> is also a great place to walk around for awhile. It is the oldest Chinatown in Canada, and second only to San Francisco in North America. The area came about from the\u00a0massive inflow of gold miners from California in 1958. It is a very popular area with locals as well,\u00a0with lots of\u00a0restaurants\u00a0and entertainment venues\u00a0located along\u00a0its maze of alleyways and courtyards.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"Victoria<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Victoria Canada is a great city\u00a0to spend a nice spring day. We stopped for a day in the Canadian town\u00a0while taking a two day cruise on Holland America between\u00a0Vancouver and\u00a0Seattle. Victoria is located on Vancouver Island\u00a060 miles to the\u00a0southwest\u00a0from\u00a0the city of Vancouver, which lies\u00a0across the Strait of Georgia. The Emerald City of Seattle is located\u00a0another […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1260,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions\/1260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}