Pacific Transfer Building
The Pacific Transfer Building is an historic building in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. It was owned by The Pacific Transfer Company, a company that offered express deliveries within the City of Victoria and was key in the distribution of goods arriving by ship and rail.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Building
- Description: building in British Columbia, Canada
- Address: 506 Fort Street
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Old Victoria Custom House and Fort Victoria.
Old Victoria Custom House
Historic building
Photo: Podzemnik, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Old Victoria Custom House, also known as the Malahat Building, in Victoria was completed in 1875 and designated as a historic building in 1987. It is a three-storey, mansard-roofed, custom house overlooking Victoria's harbour, symbolizing the era when Victoria was the pre-eminent commercial centre on Canada's West Coast. Old Victoria Custom House is situated 110 metres southwest of Pacific Transfer Building.
Fort Victoria
Memorial
Photo: Stevecudmore, Public domain.
Fort Victoria began as a fur trading post of the Hudson's Bay Company and was the headquarters of HBC operations in the Columbia District, a large fur trading area now part of the province of British Columbia, Canada and the U.S. state of Washington.
Bay Centre
Shopping center
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Bay Centre is a shopping mall in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. It is bounded by Douglas, Government, Fort, and View streets, in the city's historic centre. Bay Centre is situated 210 metres east of Pacific Transfer Building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Victoria and Chinatown.
Victoria
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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
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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 3½ km west of Pacific Transfer Building.
Pacific Transfer Building
- Category: commercial building
- Location: Victoria, Capital Regional District, British Columbia, Canada, North America
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Latitude
48.42528° or 48° 25′ 31″ northLongitude
-123.36931° or 123° 22′ 10″ westOpen location code
84WRCJGJ+47OpenStreetMap ID
way 95035848OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesWikidata ID
Q54918974
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