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The garry oak meadows of Beacon Hill Park, the whale-watching routes of the southern resident orca pods, and the Butchart Gardens in an exhausted limestone quarry 21 kilometres north extend the city beyond the Inner Harbour postcard into a natural landscape of genuine ecological significance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe colors are the Inner Harbour palette: the warm grey-green of the Empress Hotel's copper and ivy-covered limestone facade, the deep Pacific blue of the Strait at the end of Government Street, and the amber of the garry oak canopy in Beacon Hill Park in October when the meadow grasses turn gold and the Dallas Road waterfront catches the low Pacific autumn light.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"victoria-british-columbia-original-series-gallery-canvas","title":"Victoria, British Columbia | Original Series Gallery Canvas | The Painted Passport®","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVictoria is the most British city in Canada and one of the most architecturally distinguished small capitals in North America — a city of Edwardian grandeur, hanging flower baskets, double-decker buses, and the specific mild oceanic climate of southern Vancouver Island, where the combination of the warmest winters in Canada and the driest summers on the Pacific coast produces a garden culture of extraordinary intensity. Hatley Castle, built in 1908 for coal baron James Dunsmuir on the Esquimalt Lagoon just west of the city, is the most dramatic piece of Edwardian domestic architecture in western Canada — a Scottish baronial castle in warm golden limestone with a crenellated tower, arched entrance, and formal gardens descending to the sea, surrounded by the deep green of the Pacific Northwest forest and the specific warm amber and rose of a west coast evening sky. The castle sits within Royal Roads University, its grounds comprising the Italian Garden, the Japanese Garden, and the Rose Garden that Dunsmuir’s wife Laura designed and planted, and the combination of the baronial stone architecture glowing in the last light of the day against the dark Douglas fir forest and the painted Pacific sky makes it one of the most photogenic buildings in Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis high-quality canvas print brings the extraordinary warmth and grandeur of Hatley Castle at dusk into your living space — the warm golden limestone of the castle walls glowing against the amber and rose of the Pacific evening sky, the deep green of the formal hedges and the surrounding forest, the lit arched entrance, and the Canadian flag flying above the crenellated tower. 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