Author: Darrel Pratt

“I am most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of “Women’s Rights,” with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feelings and propriety. What are some quotes from Queen Victoria? Queen Victoria Quotes We […]

Widows were expected to mourn for two years and were allowed to wear grey and lavender only in the last six months of ‘half-mourning’. Children in middle-class Victorian families were required to wear full black mourning clothes for one year after the death of a parent or sibling. Why did Victorians always wear black? To […]

There were 14 treaties signed with aboriginal people around Victoria, Saanich, Sooke, Nanaimo and Port Hardy and covers approximately 927 square kilometres. Is Victoria BC on unceded land? We need to acknowledge that these lands – as is most of BC – are on unceded territories. Unceded means that these lands have been encroached upon, […]

The Esquimalt Nation has roughly 300 members. They are a Douglas Treaty nation with traditional territory extending throughout Greater Victoria and the San Juan Islands. What indigenous land is Victoria BC on? LkwungenThe southern tip of Vancouver Island (including Victoria and Langford), the San Juan, and the Gulf Islands are the traditional territories of the […]

As a result of her political standing, Queen Victoria later spoke primarily English, though she also spoke fluent French, as well as some Italian and Latin. Although Victoria spoke English fluently, she nonetheless had a German accent, so two tutors were engaged to help her get rid of it. How well did Queen Victoria speak […]

Before the start of colonisation there were around 40 Aboriginal languages spoken in Victoria. Language places you within society, it also tells you of the lores, tells you of your stories, and it’s your spiritual connection to Country as well. How many Aboriginal languages are there in Victoria? 38 languagesVictorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages (VACL) […]

Beginning in the mid-1800s, Lake Victoria was largely accepted as the source of the White Nile. But generations of explorers continued to push farther into the heart of Africa to discover tributaries of Lake Victoria that would qualify as the Nile’s “true” source. Does the Nile connect to Lake Victoria? The Nile is composed of […]