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Hillside-Quadra, Victoria — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Hillside-Quadra is a district of Victoria, the capital of British Columbia, on the southern tip of Vancouver Island.
About Hillside-Quadra
Where to stay in Hillside-Quadra
The right area depends on your trip — here's what each neighbourhood is best for.
Victoria sets the options here. Hotel supply on this part of Vancouver Island gathers in the capital's central blocks rather than inside any one residential neighbourhood, so a traveller aiming at Hillside-Quadra generally books across Victoria and travels in. Rooms elsewhere still serve.
Little inside the district itself argues for one quarter of British Columbia's capital over another.
About Hillside-Quadra
What are the main landmarks in Hillside-Quadra?
The set pieces belong to Victoria. Nothing inside Hillside-Quadra is separately catalogued as a monument, so a day out from the district means the collections of the Royal British Columbia Museum, the paintings held by the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, or the preserved rooms of Emily Carr House. All three sit in the wider city.
That pattern is ordinary for a neighbourhood unit rather than a visitor quarter.
What is the history of Hillside-Quadra?
Victoria was founded in 1862, and the neighbourhood units that now divide the city, Hillside-Quadra among them, belong to a much later administrative layer laid over a capital that had already spread across the southern tip of Vancouver Island. Records for the district are thin. No charter year and no separate origin story attaches to it.
British Columbia's capital carries that account instead.
Where is Hillside-Quadra?
Victoria fills the southern tip of Vancouver Island, and Hillside-Quadra is one of the neighbourhood units into which that city is divided.
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Updated August 2026