Which industries replaced the fur trade in Victoria during the 1850s?

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

By the early 1850s, the fur trade, which had been dominated by the Hudson’s Bay Company, was being replaced in Victoria by interests in agriculture, forestry, and coal. These sectors began to diversify the local economy as the settlement grew beyond its origins as a fur-trading fort.1