Nanaimo Bastion Wikipedia
HBC flag atop the Bastion. The Nanaimo Bastion is a historical octagonshaped blockhouse located at 98 Front Street in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Hudson's Bay Company, which then held a royal lease on all of what was then the Colony of Vancouver Island, built it between 1853 and 1855 to defend its coal mining operations in has been called "Nanaimo's premier landmark ...