An Interesting Wall-map

I love maps of this kind and it so happened that I could see one on a big wall in a street perpendicular to Government Street in Victoria. I did not miss the chance of capturing it into my camera.

The map was quite colourful and nicely drawn.

From my observation on the map:
(1) The Parliament buildings has been magnified many times.
(2) The main roads and routes of Vancouver Island are clearly shown,
(3) The various activities such as hiking, sunbathing, camping, whale watching and yacht race are introduced here.
(4) There are quite a number of lakes and several ranges of mountains on Vancouver Island.
(5) The coastline is irregular and there are long narrow sea inlets that go inland.
(6) The map also shows where we could see whales.
(7) Vancouver Lookout at Harbour centre, the Science World and B.C. Sports Museum stand out in Vancouver.

The map also gives a brief history of Pemberton Family, Vancouver Island and Fort Victoria.
Let us look at the last two:

Vancouver Island: Royal Navy Captain, James Cook landed at Nootka in 1778. Captain George Vancouver, arriving in 1792 befriended Captain Bodegay Quadra of the Spanish Navy as they debated coastal sovereignty before the Nootka Convention, and this island was originally named Vancouver and Quadra’s Island. They enjoyed a good relationship with Mowachabt Chief Maquinna. Captain Vancouver circumnavigated the island surveying its coastline, missing the cross-continent explorer Alexander McKenzie by two weeks on the mainland Bella Coola coast.

Fort Victoria:
Fort Victoria was established in 1843 by Hudson’s Bay Company Chief Factor James Douglas, who thought the area “a perfect Eden”. The fort’s southeast corner was here. Douglas was named Governor of the Colony of Vancouver Island and of the Colony of British Columbia before the union with Canada in 1871. This city, named for Queen Victoria, is the provincial capital.