The beautifully restored house above is the Ross Bay Villa. It is directly across the street from the Ross Bay Cemetery and is one of the f...

Winter does have its benefits and here is one of them. During the summer I often catch tantalizing glimpses of this lovely old Queen Anne st...

Here's a heritage house I enjoy regularly on my morning walk. It's well over 100 years old now and recently got a makeover with some...

Yesterday's photo was of a heritage house that might be described as elegant or statuesque . Today's post is another of my favorite...

In the last couple of months I've had occasion to be strolling around the neighbourhood and looking at some of the many heritage houses ...

Here's another of Victoria's fine old brick heritage homes. I pass this one nearly every morning on my way to the West Bay Walkway ...

Here's another of Victoria West's fine heritage houses, built in 1894 for Francis and Margaret Hinds, for $2,000. In 1986 the immacu...

In Vic West just above the Selkirk Trestle are many of Victoria's oldest houses, more modest than those in some other neighbourhoods but...

A week ago I published a photo of one of my favorite heritage houses on Robert Street in Victoria West, and lamented about its sorry looking...

That's what it cost to build this house in 1903. It was designed by architects Thomas Hooper and C. Elwood Watkins. It's my favorite...

Emily Carr , one of Canada's most famous artists and authors, was born and spent most of her life in Victoria. Pictured above is the hou...

For those of you who are thinking I am going "overboard" on houses, I say, "Avast there, maties!" because the house abov...

Here's another of Victoria's heritage houses. This one is described as "folk Victorian" with Queen Anne cosmetic features....

I've just discovered that there is an excellent resource for information about heritage homes here in Victoria. It's called "Th...

Emily Carr is one of Victoria's more famous personages both as an artist and as a writer. The house where she was born in 1871 and whe...

I have to post this now because the trees are greening up so fast that these cherry tree photos will be out of date soon. I have mentioned V...

Here's another old house I enjoy whenever I pass. One of many things I like about these heritage houses is that they often have verandah...

It's hard to imagine that when houses such as this were being built, modern (Portland) cement had only just been invented. Builders had ...

The modern City of Victoria was founded in 1843 although indigenous peoples (the Songhees Nation ) were living here long before. In comparis...