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Fix or mend (a thing suffering from damage or a fault)
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Function as the roof of
Cover with a roof
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a protective covering that covers or forms the top of a building
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Causeway Garage Building
812 Wharf Street, Victoria BC
Architects : Townley and Matheson
Built in 1931
The Garage was originally an Imperial Oil Co. gas and repair station, but its main feature was the 10,000,000 candlepower Sperry Beacon. The beacon, atop the 80 high cement tower could be seen 60 miles away, and was meant to guide sea plane into the harbour. In additon there were eight huge floodlights which illuminated the upper sections of the tower with the words "Imperial Oil" and 40 decorative lights around the red Spanish tile roof. The Garage has 3 levels. The lower level was primarily a repair section and the upper section was intended for storage for passengers of the CPR and CNR ferries.
The Art Deco style seen in the Garage intended to reconcile art and industry through the use of symmetry and geometrical forms. Today the building is the home of Tourism Victoria.
(Information Source: "Victoria a History in Architecture" by Martin Segger and Douglas Franklin)
New lawns.
Finally grown out, and looking OK. Drying green next to house, and new doors on polytunnel to right. Left is the shed - which still needs the walls finished off - it's still covered. Pond also not yet repaired, though drained. Mouseover pic for all of the remaining jobs.