Rockland, Greater Victoria
Rockland is a historic neighbourhood of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, located just southeast of downtown and northeast of Beacon Hill Park, and comprising the northern portion of the official city neighbourhood of Fairfield. Its boundaries are imprecise but the area roughly flanks Rockland Avenue.
The neighbourhood was founded as, and remains, one of the tonier neighbourhoods in the city, and contains a notable concentration of opulent houses and heritage architecture and lush gardenscapes. The two largest, and most famous, of Rockland's residences are Craigdarroch Castle, built by the Dunsmuir fortune, and Government House.
History
The area known today as Rockland was originally divided between the land grants taken up by
In the late Victorian period additional grand homes were constructed along Belcher Avenue, as Rockland Avenue was then known, including Duvals, constructed in 1862 and occupied by Joseph Needham, then Chief Justice of the Colony of Vancouver Island and later of
The most costly residence built in Rockland during the Victorian era was
Apart from Government House itself, there are relatively few public buildings of any type in Rockland. At the beginning of Rockland Avenue on the edge of
References
- ^ Martin Segger and Douglas Franklin, Victoria: A Primer for Regional History in Architecture, Victoria: Heritage Architectural Guides, p. 277
- ^ Segger and Franklin, p. 283
- ^ Terry Reksten, More English than the English, Victoria: Orca Book Publishers, 1986, p. 87
- ^ Green, Valerie. "If These Walls Could Talk: Victoria's Houses from the Past". TouchWood Editions, 2001, p. 29
- ^ Segger and Franklin, p. 269
- ^ Segger and Franklin, p. 287
- ^ Segger and Franklin, p. 217
External links
Rockland Neighbourhood Association website http://www.rockland.bc.ca/