Hatley Castle is a lovely spot to visit, do the full tour and you get to see all the lovely rooms. Then you can go out and walk around the nice gardens too! more
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Hatley Castle is a lovely spot to visit, do the full tour and you get to see all the lovely rooms. Then you can go out and walk around the nice gardens too! more
We were excited to go here, since we had just seen the x3 movie right before coming. The castle is worth the drive out of victoria downtown. This is a working establishment, campus of the royal roads university. You will not find alot of tourists here. We were told that the only way we can see the castle is if... more
Hatley Castle was constructed as the home for Hon. James Dunsmuir in 1908 and was the grandest home built on Vancouver Island to that date. Victoria's premier architect, Samuel Maclure, designed the mansion in the English Queen Anne and Elizabethan revival styles of the Edwardian period. The house and gardens will take the visitor to the English countryside with an... more
Fans of the "Poltergeist: The Legacy" and "Smallville" TV shows and the X-Men movies will recognize the castle, but a trip to its museum will give you the interesting background of it. It originally was built by James Dunsmeir, and later become a military college before becoming part of Royal Roads University. Tour the castle and learn a ghost story... more
