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- A Campus Emerges. The late 1950's was also a time when the university population was increasing. Victoria College, with a student population of 250 in 1945, had swelled to nearly 2,000 by 1959. Campus expansion was required. In 1959, the University Development Board of Victoria College purchased Gordon Head Camp and adjoining property from the Federal Government for $115,500. At that time the camp consisted of 120 acres of mostly open land and numerous temporary buildings, many of which are still in use today. In the spring of 1961 Mr. Richard Wilson representing the Board of Governors of the invited Wurster, Berardi and Emmons, Architects of San Francisco to come to Victoria and discuss the physical development of the campus. By April 10 1961, the University of Victoria Development Board had approved a master plan, and had purchased from the Hudson's Bay Company an additional 141 acres of forested land in Oak Bay at a price of $438,235. The open fields of the former military camp and the beautiful HBC wooded site came close to being an ideal place for the future growth of the university.
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