Fort Victoria (British Columbia) 1924, the site of the fort was desgianted a National Historic Site of Canada. Fort Victoria (British Columbia) Fort Victoria began as a fur trading post of the Hudson’s Bay Company and was the headquarters of HBC operations in the Columbia District, a large fur trading area now part of the province of British Columbia, Canada and the U.S. state of Washington. Construction of Fort Victoria in 1843 highlighted the beginning of a permanent British settlement now known as Victoria, the capital city of British Columbia. The fort itself was demolished in November 1864 as the town continued to grow
British Columbia Lottery Corporation Columbia Lottery Corporation (BCLC) was incorporated under what was then the provincial "Company Act," and which has been subsequently replaced by the "Business Corporations Act". While incorporated under the same law as any other corporate entity in the Canadian province of British Columbia, it is without share capital and has only one shareholder. That shareholder is the province of British Columbia. This ownership structure makes BCLC what is known as, in Canada parlance, a "Crown corporation". To understand BCLC's corporate structure one must also refer to the provincial "Gaming Control Act" (GCA). The GCA stipulates that despite being incorporated under