Uplands (Greater Victoria)

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Uplands, Victoria (known locally as "the Uplands") is an upper-class neighbourhood in Victoria, British Columbia located within the Municipality of Oak Bay between Cadboro Bay and Willows Beach. Uplands is a superb example of a garden suburb designed in the early part of the 20th century. It contains some of the most expensive real estate in North America.^{[citation needed]}

In 1907, the developers of Uplands purchased the area for the sum of $275,000 and hired the leading landscape architect John Olmsted as the designer. Olmsted designed famous neighbourhoods in North America. The Uplands of today is faithful to Olmsted's vision: an elegant neighbourhood with estate-sized lots, serpentine streets and the signature green, globed, ornate lamp posts. The houses are built to impress and the sprawling gardens are carefully manicured. The Uplands has certain rules and expectations ranging from the ban of laundry put out to dry on clothes lines to the expectation that each home's display garden is constantly up to par.^{[citation needed]}

Uplands has a seaside setting and has within its boundaries the large Uplands Park. Uplands Park is not the manicured park of flower beds and walks that might be expected in such a meticulously designed garden suburb. Rather, it is a wild, seaside expanse of jagged rock crags, trees stunted and shaped by the wind, lonely heaths and dramatic ocean vistas. The wildness of Uplands Park contrasts sharply with the manicured lawns and flower beds in front of the mansions that line Beach Drive, the main road through Uplands. An excellent golf course and the Royal Victoria Yacht Club are also located in Uplands.

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