Legislative Building & Wood Boats

Most government buildings are offices and meeting rooms but the Legislative Building of Victoria, the capital of British Columbia, is a show place for the city and the Provence.  The rotunda has hand-laid Italian mosaic. The dome is 100 feet high with eight sides. Murals in the rotunda illustrate the four main industries that are important to BC - forestry, agriculture, mining and fishing.

 

The buildings windows are stained glass with some from Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897 and one from the Golden Jubilee for Queen Elizabeth in 2002.

A symbol of the Speaker is the gold Mace on display in the Legislative Chamber.  It must be present on the Clerk’s Table for the Legislative Assembly to conduct its business.

As we walked the harbour looking for a place to have lunch, we spied wood boats.  They were having a festival with both wood motor boats and sailboats.  It was quite interesting to look at these magnificent, highly polished and historic boats.  One I found interesting was a small steam powered boat.