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Provincial Parliament Buildings, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
The Hudson’s Bay Company established the trading post that would become Fort Victoria in 1843. Initially named Fort Camosun, it was later renamed Fort Albert and eventually Fort Victoria in honour of the British queen.1