![]() There has been quite a boom in Board of Trade buildings all over the continent lately. Hard facts and four stories of brick and stone make good, though silent, witnesses. On Thursday, the Victoria Board of Trade, a well established institution, composed of our brightest and ablest business men, accepted a local architect’s plans for a magnificent building, in which hereafter they will conduct their deliberations. Not very many years ago it would have been looked on as a piece of presumption had Victoria so far thrusted herself forward as to even hint at the formation of such a body as the Board of Trade. It Will Be Solid Evidence of Victoria’s Growth and Increasing Prosperity We thought it was worth reproducing in its entirety.Ī Handsome Building to be Erected For The Board of Trade In This City Here is the the 1891 local newspaper report about the Board of Trade Building before it was actually built. The Board of Trade Building at 31 Bastion Square was built in 1892 by architect Alexander Maxwell Muir for the British Columbia Board of Trade at an estimated construction cost of $37,000. Historic Victoria Advertisements: Women’s Clothing 1930-1939Īdditional Information About 31 Bastion Square, the Board of Trade Building.Historic Victoria Advertisements – Women’s Clothing 1910-1919. ![]()
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