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805 Gordon Street at Humboldt – The Union Club was built in 1912. and is now 100 years old ..
The club was founded in the 1870s as a place for elite men in Victoria to socialize. Its first president
was well-known to city criminals. He was Sir Matthew Baillie Begbie, Chief Justice of
British Columbia – also known as the “Hanging Judge”.
The Union Club once occupied a building a block away where members often drank
and gambled away their evenings. There were rumours of a tunnel which would
have provided easy access to a nearby bawdy house. Years later remains of a tunnel
were indeed found! The club still operates at this location, though women are now
welcome and enter through the front door!
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