James Bay
James Bay is a high density neighbourhood of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. It is the oldest residential neighbourhood on the west coast of North America that is north of San Francisco.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Neighborhood with 13,100 residents
- Description: neighbourhood of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
- Also known as: “James Bay, British Columbia” and “James Bay, Greater Victoria”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Royal British Columbia Museum and Victoria Centennial Fountain.
Royal British Columbia Museum
Museum
Photo: Podzemnik, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Royal British Columbia Museum, founded in 1886, is a history museum in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The "Royal" title was approved by Queen Elizabeth II and bestowed by Prince Philip in 1987, to coincide with a royal tour of that year.
Victoria Centennial Fountain
Fountain
Photo: Podzemnik, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Victoria Centennial Fountain, also known as Back Fountain or simply Centennial Fountain, is installed outside the British Columbia Parliament Buildings in Victoria, British Columbia.
Douglas Obelisk
Obelisk
Photo: Podzemnik, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Douglas Obelisk is an 8-metre marble obelisk, installed outside the British Columbia Parliament Buildings in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The sculpture was erected in 1881 to honour Sir James Douglas, the first Governor of the Colony of British Columbia, and was made by Mortimer & Reid using marble from Beaver Cove, Vancouver Island.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Victoria and Chinatown.
Victoria
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Victoria is the capital of Canada's westernmost province; British Columbia, near the southern tip of Vancouver Island. Victoria contains a perfect combination of the old and new Canada.
Chinatown
Neighborhood
Photo: Podzemnik, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Chinatown in Victoria, British Columbia is the oldest Chinatown in Canada and the second oldest in North America after San Francisco. Victoria's Chinatown had its beginnings in the mid-nineteenth century in the mass influx of miners from California to what is now British Columbia in 1858.
Esquimalt
Town
Photo: Kyle Wilson, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Township of Esquimalt is a municipality at the southern tip of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada. It is bordered to the east by the provincial capital, Victoria, to the south by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, to the west by Esquimalt Harbour and… Esquimalt is situated 3 km northwest of James Bay.
James Bay
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Victoria, Capital Regional District, British Columbia, Canada, North America
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Latitude
48.41824° or 48° 25′ 6″ northLongitude
-123.3782° or 123° 22′ 42″ westPopulation
13,100Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)Open location code
84WRCJ9C+7POpenStreetMap ID
node 3096758743OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhoodGeoNames ID
5985549Wikidata ID
Q6129492
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to French—“James Bay” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “James Bay, Victoria”
- French: “James Bay”
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