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edition:Hardcover
category: Architecture
published: Jan 1996
ISBN:9781550171228
publisher: Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd.

Echoes of Empire

Victoria & Its Remarkable Buildings

by Robin Ward

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Description

Victoria, the capital of British Columbia, is home to some of the finest turn-of-the-century architecture in Canada.

Through Ward's wry, piercing and knowledgeable eye, we meet Francis Rattenbury, the flamboyant twenty-five-yearold designer of the opulent Parliament Buildings and Empress Hotel, whose career dissolved in scandal; Robert Dunsmuir, the tycoon who built an extravagant Scottish baronial castle; artist Emily Carr, premier Amor De Cosmos, and the Natives, missionaries and military men who made Victoria a city where cedar shakes, classical columns, pagoda roofs and heavenly spires jostle in a beautiful and contented ensemble.

About the Author
Robin Ward is an architectural critic, writer, photographer, and graphic artist. He wrote a weekly column on architecture for the Vancouver Sun for more than a decade. He is the author of Robin Ward’s Vancouver and Robin Ward’s Heritage West Coast (1990, 1993), as well as architectural guides to Edinburgh, Glasgow and Bangkok.

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