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OLDE ENGLISH STREET in Victoria, British Columbia,
represents a Tudor -style village from 17th century England
with a replica of William Shakespeare's birthplace, antique
!I shops and restaurants.
(Canadian Government Office of Tourism Photo)
Victoria ...
City of flowers
By Sheila McCook
Victoria is known as the city of
gardens. Its residents are pas-
sionate gardeners, as evidenced
by every square inch of ground
yet Uncovered by building, street
or sidewalk. From a limestone
quarry was coaxed a garden that
even by Victorian standards is
dazzling. The Butchart Gardens
-1-1(actually a quartet of gardens -
Japanese, English rose, Italian
Land sunken) are among the
world's great horticultural tri-
umphs and the site stands today
• as Victoria's number one tourist
attraction.
'Flowers, extravagant rows of
• them, line city parks, overflow
pots that hang from lampsbuids,
and clog the air with their sweet
smell in the conservatory of the
Empress Hotel. Exquisite gar-
( dens grace the ocean front homes
of Beachprive and Dallas,Road
- and crowd the fences of lesser
homes along lesser streets in
6ItaWn., Vittoria Werriligataens
a funtlerwatet, seenyear-1*MA in
"4. the city's Inner Harbor.
Such botanical wealth has
helped make Victoria a top
tourist centre particularly in the
slimmer mlinths when it almost
bursts with bloom.
It almost bursts with crowds
too, a 'phenomenon, felt all the
way across -the Strait of Georgia
near Vancouver where crowds
can be subjected•tri lengthy waits
for the ferries to take them from
the mainland to Victoria and
Nanaimo .on Vancouver Island.
Consequently, more people are
• t• aking notice of this British
Columbia capital during the fall,
.:winter and spring, when, if the
blooms have faded somewhat, it
is still the greenest spot in Cana-
Butchart Gardens offer free
admission from Nov. 1 through
mid-March for, strollers who.
enjoy the arts of landscaping
without the full complement of
floral color. Elsewhere in Victo-
• ria, flowers linger into late fall;
▪ by January and February snow-
drops and croenses begin to make
their appearance. March finds
abundant arrays of spring flow-
ers.
Fort Victoria
There was a day when floral
finery fax from dominated the
Victoria vista. The Hudson's Bay
Co. built Fort Victoria and made
it the company's western head-
quarters in the 184os. Life was
dull, broken only by outbursts of
- drunkenness. Noted a disgruntled
visitor, ". . . no noise, no bustle,
• no gamblers, no speculators . .
as to business there was none, the
streets were grown over with
grass and there was not even a
earl"
Things perked up with the start
of the British Columbia gold rup
in 1858. Victoria sprang to life hs
a landing and supply depot for
gold -seekers en route for the
mainland. Buildings shot up
within weeks to accommodate
the sudden invasion of tens of
thousands of men. Business
boomed to make Victoria the
major centre of Canada's north-
west until the Canadian Pacific
Railway lured most of the com-
mercial action back to the main-
land, namely Vancouver.
This decline of dominance is
recalled with nothing but grati-
tude by the peaceable citizens of
Victoria who prize their isolated
life by the sea.
A carefully cultivated air of
stateliness and comfort is par-
tially expressed by Victoria's
architecture. Massive, elaborate -
but -sensible structures dominate
the city. The Parliament Build-
ings, the Empress Hotel and Law
Chambers were all designed by
Victoria architect Francis Maw -
son Rattenbury whose life was as
raucous as his buildings digni-
fied. He divorced his wife and in
1928 married his young mistress
who, as the marriage drowned in
booze, took up w,ith a 19-year-old-
critauffeneWliti taliirdeliiei4ed a
fatal blOw;of a nialletle the 'head
of Rattenbury in 1935. When the
youth was sentenced to life im-
prisonment for the act, Ratten-
bury's widow stabbed herself to
death.
Yet Rattenbury buildings re-
veal nothing but serenity, a smug
pride in life's most solid virtues.
At night, the Parliament Build-
ings! sombre air of importance is
often permitted a touch of Disney
frivolity; their outline is illumi-
nated with a string of 8,546 light -
bulbs:
Across the way is the Empress
Hotel, accommodating about 400
with facilities for modest -sized
conventions. This 1908 chateau is
filled with nooks and salons for
eating or drinking but its most
celebrated service remains high
tea, replete with crumpets and
cake. From 3 to 5 p.m. tea pours
from silver teapots with a pomp
and circumstance that studiously
disregards the New World's ob-
session with pop and hot ,dogs.
Further remembrance of days
past is minutes away in Bastion
Square, a restored area of turn -
of -the -century buildings. What is
now the Village Fair was, in 1882,
a posh hotel whose business was
ruined by a smallpox outbreak. It
became a brothel, then a ware-
house before its 1967 resurrection
in multi -store format. The 1889
Courthouse is now the• excellent
Maritime Museum; the old Board
of Trade building a restaurant;
the Law Chambers the new home
to 20 shop.
Nearby is Trounce Alley. Back
in 1858 its owner, Mr. Southgate,
infuriated the locals by closing it
off. Nowadays Victorians and
visitors are welcome to stroll
through to shop and admire its
Dickensian picturesqueness.
Victoria claims its share of his-
toric sites, museums and galler-
ies. Among them are the city's
art gallery, Craigdarroch Castle,
Emily Carr Arts Centre, and the
Provincial Museum (largest of
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Q. We are Juoving to a
small city apart•ment kcal
our large Wilily Wine, sell-
ing because our childrm• have
married andjeft home. We
want to greate ni OILS apart
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meat a comfortable place for
entertaining friends infor-
mally and for Monday
through Thursday living. We
spend the rest of the week in
our mountain home. In our
city apartment I want to have
easy care furnishings so that
maintenance problems are
reduced as much as possible.
Our furniture will need re-
covering and much I plan to
dispose of. Please suggest
some colors for a warm and
comfortable color scheme
and some fabrics to go on
chairs, sofa and dining set.
We want to create a light and
crisp, carefree look in this
apartment but now the apart-
ment has no personality with
white walb. We will need to
choose a floor coming and
window treatment. - C. B.
A. You might add instant
warmth and interest to two of
your living room walls by
painting them a soft, earthen
Orange. Paint the other two
walls an off-white or leave
them as they are if they are
not too starkly white. For the
floor you might like easy care
white vinyl and then add an
area rug for your sofa and
chairs to create an eye -ap-
pealing conversation area:
The rug might be m a deeper
rust color, soft (weep, yellow
and off-white. For the sofa
you might like low mainte-
nance white vinyl. You might
.WOMEN ASK
Untreated
VD can
harm baby
By ELEANOR B.
RODGERSON, M.D.
•• ••••••tr., i-ys,-;
Q. What happens if you
don't get treated for VD?
A. Venereal disease can be
spread by those whO do not
get treated and a woman's
baby can be infected during
regnancy, or at the time of
birth. If you are not. con-
cernedabout yourself, you
should be concerned about
others.
A gonorrheal infection in a
woman can spread to her
tubes and. ovaries: Abscesses •
may be formed and sterility
(an inability to get pregnant)
may result. It can also get in-
to the bloodstream and cause
a skin rash and arthritis.
Syphilis seems to disappear
after the first small chancre
( sore which a woman may
not even notice if it happens
to be inside her vagina. Then,
in a few weeks, there may be
a generalized skin rash and
years later involvement of
the nerves, the heart and
blood vessels, and the brain.
We have no treatment for
herpes yet and it tends to re-
peat itself every few weeks,
or months. It is suspected as
being connected with 'the de-
velopment of cancer of the
cervix in a woman, but this
relationship has not been
proved.
its kind west of Toronto).
Then there is Victoria's frivo-
lous side. Double decker buses,
the Royal London Wax Museum,
Anne Hathaway's thatched cot-
tage ("guided tours daily by
Tudor wenches"), the crown
jewels of England all have little
to do with the story of British
Columbia and everything to do
with a country thousands of miles
east -but no one seems to mind,
perhaps because each site at-
tracts far more smiles than
sneers.
Education and entertainment
find their ideal meeting place at
Sealand, where theatrical hams
who happen to be killer whales
and sea lions perform with a big
splash in return for applause and
snacks.
Victoria is a year-round play-
ground for Canadians. Winters
are mild, the only major disrup-
tion being the occasional brisk
rainstorm. Walking and jogging
are entrenched local habits, per-
haps because of the miles of
parkland and beach frontage.
Cycling, tennis and golfing (there
are eight public courses in the
area) are year-round pastimes.
Warrn weather or cool, sailing is
one of life's basic necessities to
countless Victorians.
Prt
cs
like a heavily *lured linen
in yellows, °molt out off,
white on your ebairs you
might reupholster. YOUrnight
antiqueyellowor gold apiece
of WOWfurniture that Weald
be good looking against the
pale orange wall. The painted
piece would be a nice contrast
with natural wood end table;
and coffee tables. For wifl.
dows why not create an airy
look with an open, heavily
woven white fabric.
Q. We are moving to a rural,
house soon. There is so much
space but I can't come up
with the right colors to use. I
have a den, kitchen and
dining area all in one enclo-
sure. The den section and the
wall where the dining table
will be, is paneled. The
kitchen wall is painted a
faded green, kitchen tabineta
are painted a medium green.
I would like to recto cabinets
and counter tops. How da you
refinish cabinets and what
color should I use? I have
three windows, two over the
sink (half -windows) and one
in the dining area. There are
also two , slim windows (one -
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FOR EASY CARE -Vinyl floors, punctuated with a large.
are rug, and a, glove -soft white vinyl sofa. help reduce
maintenance in this apartment living room. Color is added
through the upholstered chairs and walls of a deep
persimmon shade.
foot wide) and a door with
glass in the den area. How
should I treat the windows
and what color should I use? I
love lots of color and need all
the light I can get in this area.
The floor in this area is allme
same - a light, neutral ti.
might like to carpet son somk of
it. - E. J. A.
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white. You might do, several
or all four walls in the paper.
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• out of the wallpaper and paint
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