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Confederation Garden Court

plaza in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ55137580 ↗
Source-derived summary

Confederation Garden Court is a plaza in Victoria, British Columbia, completed in 1967 to commemorate the Canadian Centennial of confederation. The plaza features the British Columbia Time Capsule and Confederation Fountain, and is maintained by the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. It has all the shields of the provinces and territories .

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The public source identifies “Confederation Garden Court” as plaza in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Confederation, Garden and Court.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1967—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Confederation, Garden and Court providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Confederation Garden Court”, the useful work is to connect “plaza in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q55137580. Authority coordinates are 48.420, -123.372. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1967.

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This entry incorporates text from “Confederation Garden Court” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.