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Downtown Victoria, the Glossary

Downtown Victoria is a neighbourhood of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada that serves as the city centre and the central business district for the City of Victoria, and the Greater Victoria regions.^[1]

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Area code 250

Area code 250 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the Canadian province of British Columbia outside the Lower Mainland, including Vancouver Island–home to the provincial capital, Victoria–and the province's Interior region.

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Bastion Square

Bastion Square is a historic pedestrian mall in Victoria, British Columbia.

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Bay Centre

The Bay Centre (formerly the Victoria Eaton Centre) is a shopping mall in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

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Beacon Hill Park

Beacon Hill Park is a 75 ha (183 acre) park located along the shore of Juan de Fuca Strait in Victoria, British Columbia.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada.

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British Columbia Parliament Buildings

The British Columbia Parliament Buildings are in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, and are home to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Capital Regional District

The Capital Regional District (CRD) is a local government administrative district encompassing the southern tip of Vancouver Island and the southern Gulf Islands in the Canadian province of British Columbia.

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Centennial Square

Centennial Square is a plaza in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

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Central business district

A central business district (CBD) is the commercial and business center of a city.

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Chinatown, Victoria

The Chinatown in Victoria, British Columbia is the oldest Chinatown in Canada and the second oldest in North America after San Francisco.

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Chinese people

The Chinese people, or simply Chinese, are people or ethnic groups identified with China, usually through ethnicity, nationality, citizenship, or other affiliation.

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Christ Church Cathedral (Victoria, British Columbia)

Christ Church Cathedral in Victoria, British Columbia is the cathedral church of the Diocese of British Columbia of the Anglican Church of Canada.

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City centre

A city centre is the commercial, cultural and often the historical, political, and geographic heart of a city.

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Civic Holiday

Civic Holiday (congé civique) is a public holiday in Canada celebrated on the first Monday in August.

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Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) is an international body in the field of tall buildings, including skyscrapers, and sustainable urban design.

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Downtown

Downtown is a term primarily used in North America by English speakers to refer to a city's sometimes commercial, cultural and often the historical, political, and geographic heart.

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Fan Tan Alley

Fan Tan Alley is an alley in the Chinatown neighbourhood of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada that is known for being the narrowest commercial street in North America, being less than wide at its narrowest point.

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Geographical Names Board of Canada

The Geographical Names Board of Canada (GNBC) is a national committee with a secretariat in Natural Resources Canada, part of the Government of Canada, which authorizes the names used and name changes on official federal government maps of Canada.

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Government Street (Victoria, British Columbia)

Government Street is a major road in Victoria, British Columbia.

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Greater Vancouver

Greater Vancouver, also known as Metro Vancouver, is the metropolitan area with its major urban centre being the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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Greater Victoria

Greater Victoria (also known as the Greater Victoria Region) is located in British Columbia, Canada, on the southern tip of Vancouver Island.

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Hudson Place One (building)

Hudson Place One is a high-rise condominium building in Victoria, British Columbia.

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Johnson Street Bridge

Four known bridges have spanned the narrows between the Inner Harbour and Upper Harbour of Victoria, British Columbia, connecting Johnson Street on the east shore with Esquimalt Road on the west shore.

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List of postal codes of Canada: V

This is a list of postal codes in Canada where the first letter is V. Postal codes beginning with V are located within the Canadian province of British Columbia.

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Local government in Canada

Local government in Canada can be defined as all elected local authorities which are legally empowered to make decisions on behalf of its electors, excluding the federal government, provincial and territorial governments, and First Nations, Métis and Inuit governments.

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Market Square, Victoria

Market Square is a town square and shopping centre located in the downtown core next to Chinatown in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

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Provinces and territories of Canada

Canada has ten provinces and three territories that are sub-national administrative divisions under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Constitution.

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Public holidays in Canada

Public holidays in Canada (Jours fériés au Canada), known as statutory holidays, stat holidays, or simply stats (jours fériés), consist of a variety of cultural, nationalistic, and religious holidays that are legislated in Canada at the federal or provincial and territorial levels.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Victoria

Downtown Victoria, the Glossary

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Central business districts in Canada

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