Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. Bike to Work Week began in 1995 in Victoria and has expanded to include other communities in BC through their local bicycle advocacy groups all supported by the Bike to Work BC Society. They are also older than the rest of the homeless population with 48% of the boarding house homeless population aged 45 years and over, compared to 28% of the total homeless population being in that age bracket. [107] The dedicated bike and bus lane on Douglas street is being expanded from Downtown to near Uptown and may be changed to be restricted to only buses and bikes 24/7 rather than just during peak traffic periods depending on direction of travel. Greater Victoria also has a rich motorsports history, and is home to a 4/10ths mile oval race track called Western Speedway. Until the tunnel was completed in 1967, water flowed from the lake through the circuitous, leaky and much smaller 44 km (27 mi) Sooke Flowline. In 1865, the North Pacific home of the Royal Navy was established in Esquimalt and today is Canada's Pacific coast naval base. Every few decades Victoria receives very large snowfalls including the record breaking 100 cm (39.4 in) of snow that fell in December 1996. and Macaulay Pt. Streets in the local area are closed, as each year approximately 40,000 people attend a variety of concerts and events throughout the day. [citation needed] Other nearby employers include the Canadian Forces (the Township of Esquimalt is the home of the Pacific headquarters of the Royal Canadian Navy), and the University of Victoria (in the municipalities of Oak Bay and Saanich) and Camosun College (which have over 33,000 faculty, staff and students combined). As they retreated, their melt water left thick deposits of sand and gravel. Victoria also serves as the western terminus (Mile Zero) for Canada's Trans-Canada Highway, the longest national highway in the world. With 2,193 hours of bright sunshine annually during the last available measurement period, Victoria was the second sunniest city in British Columbia after Cranbrook. Rider fare payments can be made in cash, monthly bus passes, disability yearly passes, day-passes purchased from the driver or tickets purchased from a store. The resulting soils are highly variable in texture, and abrupt textural changes are common. [101] The next two roads in the downtown area bike network have been approved by city council for Humboldt and Wharf streets with construction planned to start October 2018 . Erected in 1843 as a Hudson's Bay Company trading post on a site originally called Camosun (the native word was "camosack", meaning "rush of water")[citation needed] known briefly as "Fort Albert", the settlement was renamed Fort Victoria in November 1843, in honour of Queen Victoria. His son James Dunsmuir became Premier and subsequently Lieutenant Governor of the province and built his own grand residence at Hatley Park (used for several decades as Royal Roads Military College, now civilian Royal Roads University) in the present City of Colwood. [57][58][59][60][61], A 2018 survey on the homeless found 33% of the homeless population identify themselves as being of First Nations origin. by: Nikiya Carrero. Bus service from Victoria to points up island is run by Island Link Bus or Tofino Bus. [108] Most buses operating in the Greater Victoria area have a bike rack installed at the front of the bus that can accommodate two bicycles.[109]. Figure SHS.1: SHS clients with a mental health issue, states and territories, 2018-19. There were zero new vaccines delivered to Nova Scotia for a total of 450,600 doses delivered so far. [27] Trewartha places it in the Oceanic climate zone (Do). Esquimalt Harbour is also a well-protected harbour with a large graving dock and shipbuilding and repair facilities. [45] For a list of neighbourhoods in other area municipalities, see Greater Victoria, or the individual entries for those municipalities. There is also a disproportionately high Indigenous homeless population in the city. Minor professional hockey returned to Victoria in the form of the Victoria Salmon Kings, which played in the ECHL from 2004 to 2011, and were a minor league affiliate of the Vancouver Canucks. Cycle Therapy. Victoria's newest sports team is Pacific FC of the Canadian Premier League. The second protected bike lane in the network opened on Fort Street May 27, 2018. Marine clay settled on what would later become dry land. [19] A number of municipalities surrounding Victoria were incorporated during this period, including the Township of Esquimalt, the District of Oak Bay, and several municipalities on the Saanich Peninsula.[20]. The city also boasts the country's third-highest concentration of people 65 and older (17.8%), behind only Peterborough, Ontario, and Kelowna, British Columbia. The most recent data from the census of population and housing show that there were approximately 116,000 people experiencing homelessness in Australia in 2016 (ABS 2018). Actor, artist, and athlete Duncan Regehr of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was raised in the region. Canada Day fireworks displays, Symphony Splash, and many other music festivals and cultural events draw tens of thousands of Greater Victorians and visitors to the downtown core. Victoria's equable climate has also added to its reputation as the "City of Gardens". It hosted the 1994 Commonwealth Games and the 2005 Ford World Men's Curling Championship. In the province, 3.86 per cent (37,630) of the population has been fully vaccinated. This population is particularly challenged in getting to court due to a lack of structure and resources. Travel time is longer during rush hour times due to large volume of traffic entering the downtown core in the morning and departing at evening rush hour. Actor Cory Monteith from the television series Glee was raised in Victoria. Pleistocene glaciation put the area under a thick ice cover, the weight of which depressed the land below present sea level. The following is a list of neighbourhoods in the City of Victoria, as defined by the city planning department. A real-estate and development boom ended just before World War I, leaving Victoria with a large stock of Edwardian public, commercial and residential buildings that have greatly contributed to the city's character. The Spanish and British took up the exploration of the northwest coast, beginning with the visits of Juan Pérez in 1774, and of James Cook in 1778. Victoria is also popular with retirees, who come to enjoy the temperate and usually snow-free climate of the area as well as the usually relaxed pace of the city. [64][65] It was built on the site of a former brickyard in the Maywood district, a then-semi-rural area in the northern part of Victoria. Youth homelessness is on the rise as well. [105], Local public transportation is run by the Victoria Regional Transit System, which is part of BC Transit. Victoria is served by three public post secondary educational institutions outside the city in the Greater Victoria area: University of Victoria (UVic), Camosun College, and Royal Roads University (RRU). Victoria is also home to the world's largest all-seaplane airline, Harbour Air. Two militia infantry battalions, the 88th Victoria Fusiliers and the 50th Gordon Highlanders, formed in the immediate pre-war period. For this reason, the Greater Victoria area had the highest rate of bicycle commuting to work of any census metropolitan area in Canada in the 2011 and 2016 census. The 5th (British Columbia) Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery Band traces its roots back to 1864, making it the oldest, continually operational military band west of Thunder Bay, Ontario. The ABS Census is conducted every five years, with the most recent release being for 2016. Victoria is committed to providing world-leading standards of care for all people living with a mental illness. Pacific Opera Victoria, Victoria Operatic Society, Victoria Philharmonic Choir, Canadian Pacific Ballet and Ballet Victoria stage two or three productions each year at the Macpherson or Royal Theatres. The annual multi-day Rifflandia Music Festival is one of Canada's largest modern rock and pop music festivals. Rights and advocacy. Victoria International Airport has non-stop flights to and from Toronto, Seattle, Montreal (seasonal), select seasonal sun destinations, and many cities throughout Western Canada. Douglas founded Fort Victoria on the site of present-day Victoria in anticipation of the outcome of the Oregon Treaty in 1846, extending the British North America/United States border along the 49th parallel from the Rockies to the Strait of Georgia. The city is also a destination for conventions, meetings, and conferences, including a 2007 North Atlantic Treaty Organization military chief of staff meeting held at the Hotel Grand Pacific. When snow does fall, it rarely lasts long on the ground. The opium trade was banned in 1908.[18]. [55] In early 2008, an anti-homelessness programme based on a successful Italian programme was introduced to Victoria. Precipitation in December, the wettest month (109 mm or 4.3 in) is nearly eight times as high as in July, the driest month (14 mm or 0.6 in). In 2006, a Times-Colonist news article estimated the homeless population to have increased by 30% in just a few weeks due to the anticipated tourism boom of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. The Capital Regional District, which includes additional rural areas, has a total population of 345,164. Passenger rail service previously operated by Via Rail provided a single daily return trip along between Victoria – Courtenay, along the eastern coast of Vancouver Island, to the cities of Nanaimo, Courtenay, and points between. [21] [17] In 1862 Victoria was the epicentre of the 1862 Pacific Northwest smallpox epidemic which devastated First Nations, killing about two-thirds of all natives in British Columbia. Victoria discharges 81.7 megalitres (2,890,000 cubic feet)[88] per day of screened wastewater that has undergone preliminary treatment into the Strait of Juan de Fuca. The city of Victoria lies entirely within the Greater Victoria School District. 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