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	Date/Time	Made By	Edit Note	Type	Scope
	Sep 1 2006, 4:20 AM EDT	Stuart_de_Stael		edit	36 words added
Change: remodelled to resemble half-timbered English Tudor construction. Several treasured Victoria institutions--icons taken for granted today--were, at the time they were proposed, considered extravagant, overbuilt, unnecessary and expensive by some unambitious Victorians. These include the Provincial Legislative buildings, City Hall and our trademark lampposts. View changes from previous version. (Word count: 329)
	Aug 30 2006, 5:52 PM EDT	Stuart_de_Stael		edit	37 words added 4 words deleted
Change: For a more comprehensive look at the development of the downtown area surrounding the Harbour read Sustain and Retain: A Short History Based on the Upper Harbour.Victoria started out in the 1840s as an ambitious yet filthy, corrupt, violent, polluted frontier town. The old English concept was merely View changes from previous version. (Word count: 291)
	Aug 30 2006, 1:21 AM EDT	Stuart_de_Stael		edit	33 words added
Change: The 1879 decision making the small lower mainland town of Port Moody (and later Vancouver) the terminus of the Candian Pacific Railway was a turning point in Victoria's growth as a trading hub. A turn of the Century building boom was shortly View changes from previous version. (Word count: 259)
	Aug 29 2006, 7:45 PM EDT	Stuart_de_Stael		edit	217 words added
Change: Victoria started out in the 1840s as an ambitious yet filthy, corrupt, violent, polluted frontier town. The old English concept was merely a veneer. The View changes from previous version. (Word count: 225)
	Aug 29 2006, 7:37 PM EDT	Stuart_de_Stael		create	No content added or deleted.
Change: Created by Stuart_de_Stael Aug 29 2006, 7:37 PM EDT for: no reason given