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Thursday, June 9, 2011

Historic E&N Roundhouse, Esquimalt

Decided to take a drive over to Esquimalt and when looking at the map found a notation to the Historic E&N Roundhouse.  Was this worth going to?  A Google search took me to Canada's Historic Places website where I learned that the Esquimalt E&N Roundhouse was built in 1912 and included industrial buildings and locomotive turntable .  Today the Roundhouse is valued for its completeness, its overall industrial architecture, and insight into the role it played in in Vancouver Island's early development. www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=1621   There is quite a bit more informations available and the following link gives a timeline history http://www.roundhousevictoria.com/docs/historic_landmark.pdf

The site has been purchased by a developer and we can only wait and see what happens in the future.  My own pictures of the site follow:












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