Sunken Garden

Sunken Garden

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The Sunken Garden was created from an exhausted Vancouver Portland Cement Company limestone quarry which had been used as the source of limestone for manufacturing Portland cement.

The Vancouver Portland Cement Company plant above the Sunken Garden and the Trout Pond, circa 1910 (City of Victoria Archives photo M00805)
The Vancouver Portland Cement Company plant above the Sunken Garden, the Mound and the Trout Pond, circa 1919 (City of Victoria Archives photo M00805)
The Mound from the west side of the Sunken Garden, circa 1910. This section of the Sunken Garden was designed by Raoul Robillard. (City of Victoria Archives photo M05820)
The Mound from the west side of the Sunken Garden, circa 1910. This section of the Sunken Garden was designed by Raoul Robillard. (City of Victoria Archives photo M05820)
The Sunken Garden, 1922. This photo originally appeared in a 1922 magazine article (Author's collection)
The Sunken Garden, 1922. This photo originally appeared in a 1922 magazine article (Author’s collection)
The Sunken Garden, the Mound and the Trout Pond, looking north, circa 1922. (City of Victoria Archives photo M05829)
The Sunken Garden, the Mound and the Trout Pond, looking north, circa 1922. (City of Victoria Archives photo M05829)

Here are links to some historic photographs of the Sunken Garden:

 

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