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Victoria Watcher has just posted a new topic entitled "Brett Cooper" in forum "Online Media".
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Mike P. posted topic Encore
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Mike P. has just posted a new topic entitled "Encore" in forum "Victoria Pubs, Bars and 19+ Venues".
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Encore (by Paparazzi - former Vic events centre) is set to open in a couple weeks and they're hiring all positions. Email address for the interested: contact@paparazzinightclub.ca
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Encore (by Paparazzi - former Vic events centre) is set to open in a couple weeks and they're hiring all positions. Email address for the interested: contact@paparazzinightclub.ca
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Thursday, January 9, 2025
Victoria Watcher posted topic The Union Club
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Victoria Watcher has just posted a new topic entitled "The Union Club" in forum "Victoria Pubs, Bars and 19+ Venues".
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It creaks and groans and has, on occasion, suddenly stopped and trapped people inside.
But for the past 112 years, the elevator at the Union Club of British Columbia has done a yeoman's job of getting countless members, guests, staff, freight, food and furniture between four floors of the historic building.
While it may not be the oldest lift in the province, the Union Club's elevator is believed to be one of the oldest still in operation and has long been considered a "hidden gem" in the private club.
That ends next week when Richmond Elevator starts pulling out the old wood-panelled lift, its flexed-brass doors and the inner workings of steel pulleys and cables, to make way for a state-of-the-art elevator.
https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/after-112-years-of-ups-and-downs-union-club-lift-is-being-replaced-10050760 (https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/after-112-years-of-ups-and-downs-union-club-lift-is-being-replaced-10050760)
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It creaks and groans and has, on occasion, suddenly stopped and trapped people inside.
But for the past 112 years, the elevator at the Union Club of British Columbia has done a yeoman's job of getting countless members, guests, staff, freight, food and furniture between four floors of the historic building.
While it may not be the oldest lift in the province, the Union Club's elevator is believed to be one of the oldest still in operation and has long been considered a "hidden gem" in the private club.
That ends next week when Richmond Elevator starts pulling out the old wood-panelled lift, its flexed-brass doors and the inner workings of steel pulleys and cables, to make way for a state-of-the-art elevator.
https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/after-112-years-of-ups-and-downs-union-club-lift-is-being-replaced-10050760 (https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/after-112-years-of-ups-and-downs-union-club-lift-is-being-replaced-10050760)
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Saturday, January 4, 2025
Victoria Watcher posted topic History of electricity in Greater Victoria
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Victoria Watcher has just posted a new topic entitled "History of electricity in Greater Victoria" in forum "Urban Design".
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The story of electricity as a public utility on the West Coast of British Columbia began 60 years ago when the Victoria City Council signed an agreement with Robert Burns McMicking to erect and support and maintain at three separate points in the said city an electric light with an illuminating power equal to the aggregate to 50,000 candles.
Mr. McMicking, who is now best remembered as one of the over-landers of '62, probably had more experience with electricity than anyone else in British Columbia.
This project called for the erection of three 150 foot masts each caring for or five double arc lamps and was intended to light the whole of the more thickly populated part of Victoria. The agreement was ratified in July, 1883, and the lights were ready for service in December of that year.
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Undaunted by this partial failure, McMicking took a prominent part in organizing the Victoria Electric Illuminating Company, a firm which had the distinction of being the first public incandescent lighting system in Canada. Electric current was generated by a 50 hp steam engine and the plan was rated as having a capacity of 400 16-candle power lamps.
James Douglas Warren, Thomas Shotbolt, David W Higgins, Andrew Gray, Joseph Hunter, and others, organized the company which constructed the first street railway within Victoria city limits and which supplied electric power for lighting purposes.
An arrangement with the city was confirmed in 1889 and the promoters organize the National Electric Tramway and Lighting Company Limited, with an initial authorization capital of $250,000. The original power plant had to Thomson and Houston generators driven by a 110 hp steam engine.
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The first hydroelectric plant on the Pacific coast was built by the BC Electric at Goldstream in 1898. The original installation consisted of two 600 hp Pelton wheels, directly connected to two stationary field generators.
This plan was enlarged at various times in now consists of one 900 and another 2000 hp waterwheel.
After 1902 the greatest expansion of electrical facilities took place to accommodate the rapidly increasing population of Victoria. In 1902 there were 2000 light and power customers and the industrial power load average about 500 hp.
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Jordan River Plant.
Preliminary work on the Jordan River plant, 40 miles from Victoria, was begun in 1909 in the first unit of 6000 hp was completed in 1912. Power was delivered to Victoria in the same year.
The capacity of this plant has been since expanded to about 37,000 hp the development is entirely dependent on the storage system, there being a wide variation in the seasonal flow of water.
An auxiliary steam plant was built at Brentwood in 1912, with an initial installed capacity of 6000 hp. Plans are now in hand to increase the capacity of this plant by 10,700 hp, the limit of economic development on Jordan River watershed having been reached.
https://hallmarkheritagesociety.ca/archives/history-articles/victoria-pioneered-electrical-development/ (https://hallmarkheritagesociety.ca/archives/history-articles/victoria-pioneered-electrical-development/)
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The story of electricity as a public utility on the West Coast of British Columbia began 60 years ago when the Victoria City Council signed an agreement with Robert Burns McMicking to erect and support and maintain at three separate points in the said city an electric light with an illuminating power equal to the aggregate to 50,000 candles.
Mr. McMicking, who is now best remembered as one of the over-landers of '62, probably had more experience with electricity than anyone else in British Columbia.
This project called for the erection of three 150 foot masts each caring for or five double arc lamps and was intended to light the whole of the more thickly populated part of Victoria. The agreement was ratified in July, 1883, and the lights were ready for service in December of that year.
[...]
Undaunted by this partial failure, McMicking took a prominent part in organizing the Victoria Electric Illuminating Company, a firm which had the distinction of being the first public incandescent lighting system in Canada. Electric current was generated by a 50 hp steam engine and the plan was rated as having a capacity of 400 16-candle power lamps.
James Douglas Warren, Thomas Shotbolt, David W Higgins, Andrew Gray, Joseph Hunter, and others, organized the company which constructed the first street railway within Victoria city limits and which supplied electric power for lighting purposes.
An arrangement with the city was confirmed in 1889 and the promoters organize the National Electric Tramway and Lighting Company Limited, with an initial authorization capital of $250,000. The original power plant had to Thomson and Houston generators driven by a 110 hp steam engine.
[...]
The first hydroelectric plant on the Pacific coast was built by the BC Electric at Goldstream in 1898. The original installation consisted of two 600 hp Pelton wheels, directly connected to two stationary field generators.
This plan was enlarged at various times in now consists of one 900 and another 2000 hp waterwheel.
After 1902 the greatest expansion of electrical facilities took place to accommodate the rapidly increasing population of Victoria. In 1902 there were 2000 light and power customers and the industrial power load average about 500 hp.
[...]
Jordan River Plant.
Preliminary work on the Jordan River plant, 40 miles from Victoria, was begun in 1909 in the first unit of 6000 hp was completed in 1912. Power was delivered to Victoria in the same year.
The capacity of this plant has been since expanded to about 37,000 hp the development is entirely dependent on the storage system, there being a wide variation in the seasonal flow of water.
An auxiliary steam plant was built at Brentwood in 1912, with an initial installed capacity of 6000 hp. Plans are now in hand to increase the capacity of this plant by 10,700 hp, the limit of economic development on Jordan River watershed having been reached.
https://hallmarkheritagesociety.ca/archives/history-articles/victoria-pioneered-electrical-development/ (https://hallmarkheritagesociety.ca/archives/history-articles/victoria-pioneered-electrical-development/)
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Thursday, January 2, 2025
Victoria Watcher posted topic [Downtown Victoria] 1520 Blanshard | Office/Retail/Residential | 35-storeys
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Victoria Watcher has just posted a new topic entitled "[Downtown Victoria] 1520 Blanshard | Office/Retail/Residential | 35-storeys" in forum "City of Victoria".
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Project Overview: Reliance Properties is proposing a 35-storey mixed-use building at 1520 Blanshard Street, located just outside the North Park neighbourhood. The proposal features ground-floor retail, co-working space on the second floor, and residential units on the upper floors. The residential units include a mix of studio, one-bedroom, two-bedroom, and three-bedroom options. The plan also outlines a large public plaza as part of the development.
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Project Overview: Reliance Properties is proposing a 35-storey mixed-use building at 1520 Blanshard Street, located just outside the North Park neighbourhood. The proposal features ground-floor retail, co-working space on the second floor, and residential units on the upper floors. The residential units include a mix of studio, one-bedroom, two-bedroom, and three-bedroom options. The plan also outlines a large public plaza as part of the development.
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