Fort Victoria
The pavement design near this plaque marks the location of the east gate of Fort Victoria, built in 1843. From here the wooden stockade stretched northward to the bastion and southward toward what is now Broughton Street. The plaques in the pavement are copied from the official seal of the City of Victoria (1862) and the Crown Colony of the Island of Vancouver and Its Dependencies (1849). The names of early city officials and of colonial legislators surround the respective plaques. The strip delineating the fort stockade bears the names of early residents.
The project was initiated by the Greater Victoria Civic Archives Society and supported by public grants and individual sponsors, many of them family descendants.
[Plaque placed below]
The above plaque was unveiled in a public ceremony May 16, 1986, by four-year old Micelle Crow, the great-great-great granddaughter of Capt. William H. McNeill who first recommended the harbour as a suitable site for Fort Victoria.
Marker is at the intersection of Government Street and Fort Street on Government Street.
Courtesy hmdb.org
