View of Victoria Harbour and Fort Victoria (far left) in 1864 (photograph attributed to Arthur Vipond, Royal BC Museum PN8954-A1) and approximately the same location in 2015 (CW-2015-08-18-0408. Photograph historian Grant Keddie produced an excellent book on the Songhees people and the history of the harbour. ¹

I haven’t scaled the then/now images as correctly as should be done. Someone who knows their Victoria landmarks (past and present) could likely do a better job. Its also likely that  more historic images from the late 1800s and 1900s show this scene, making it possible to do a more complete sequence of landscape change over time.  

 

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