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When was the settlement of Victoria officially named?

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Victoria Provincial Parliament Buildings, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

The settlement of Victoria, British Columbia, was officially named in 1852.1

Prior to this, the site was known to the Coast Salish people as Camosun or Camosack. Following the establishment of Fort Victoria by the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1843, a small village began to develop around the fort. By the early 1850s, this village site was formally surveyed, leading to the official naming of the settlement as Victoria in 1852.1