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Victoria West, Victoria — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Victoria West, known as Vic West, lies across Victoria Harbour from downtown Victoria in British Columbia, bordering the Township of Esquimalt.
About Victoria West
Where to stay in Victoria West
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
The harbour is the whole calculation. Vic West sits directly across Victoria Harbour from downtown Victoria, so a room here trades a central address for a crossing, short in itself but a crossing all the same, with Esquimalt beginning at the far edge of the neighbourhood. Point Ellice House stands within it.
You are choosing this side when the crossing and the historic addresses matter more than standing among downtown Victoria's own blocks.
About Victoria West
What are the main landmarks in Victoria West?
Four entries, all built. Point Ellice House, recorded also as O'Reilly House, is the one entry with two names, and the Church of Our Lady Queen of Peace stands with it among the marked buildings of Victoria West. Two addresses complete the set.
One is 223 Robert Street and the other sits on Arthur Currie Lane, the kind of listing that puts a single house rather than a monument on the neighbourhood's map.
What is the history of Victoria West?
The word the record uses is historic. Victoria West carries that description, and Point Ellice House, filed also as O'Reilly House, is the property the register attaches it to. That label comes without a date.
What the file fixes instead is the neighbourhood's relation to Victoria Harbour and to the Township of Esquimalt, the water on one side and another municipality on the other.
Where is Victoria West?
Victoria West lies just west of downtown across Victoria Harbour, its far edge meeting the Township of Esquimalt in British Columbia.
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Updated September 2026