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29-620: It was first played at the Esquimalt Royal Navy Dockyard , Victoria British Columbia , Canada . The tournament ran as part of ILTF Circuit until 1973. The tournament continued as part of the Satellite Circuit until 1978 when it was discontinued. In 1886 Victoria Lawn Tennis Challenge Cup was played at the naval base of the British Royal Navy in Esquimalt Royal Navy Dockyard , Esquimalt , Canada . The tournament

58-596: A century old, the dock is used regularly to service HMC ships and is part of the Fleet Maintenance Facility. Esquimalt was vacated by the British Royal Navy at sunset on 1 March 1905. The Canadian Department of Marine and Fisheries took over control of the shore establishment and the responsibility of enforcing control of Canada's maritime interests in the area after the Royal Navy left. After passage of

87-568: A forward operating base when patrolling in the North Pacific. Although the original graving dock was large enough to accommodate the largest ships in the British Pacific fleet at the time of its construction, by the early 20th century larger ships were routinely being built. In 1924, the government of Canada built a larger graving dock 500 metres (1,600 ft) distant, able to accommodate ships larger than Panamax size. Today, this dock

116-703: A lieutenant. On 17 October 1831 he was appointed a lieutenant in Savage , commanded by Lord Edward Russell , on the Irish station. On 9 April 1832, he followed Russell to Nimrod , off the coast of Spain. On 27 August 1833, John Macdougall succeeded Russell, still on the Spain–Portugal station. From 30 March 1836, he was a lieutenant in Minden , commanded by Alexander Renton Sharpe, at Lisbon. Then on 10 July 1837 he moved to Alligator , commanded by Gordon Bremer , at Australia, who

145-528: Is a separate facility named the Esquimalt Graving Dock. It is operated by Public Services and Procurement Canada and is the largest non-military hard bottom dry dock on the west coast of the Americas. In February 1942, RMS Queen Elizabeth spent two weeks in the Esquimalt Graving Dock refitting and adding 3,000 extra berths for troopship duty. Stabilizer pockets have more recently been built into

174-524: Is named. From 3 July 1850 to February 1854 Augustus Leopold Kuper was captain of HMS  Thetis from her commissioning at HMNB Devonport . He sailed her to the southeast coast of America and then to Esquimalt. Kuper Island in the Strait of Georgia , off the east coast of Vancouver Island , was named for Captain Kuper after he surveyed the area from 1851 to 1853. Thetis Island and Thetis Lake are named for

203-762: The Naval Service Act in 1910, there was a Canadian Naval Service (CNS) that controlled the base; the CNS became the Royal Canadian Navy in 1911. The geographic boundaries of the Royal Navy's Pacific Station would be added to that of the Bermuda-based North America and West Indies Station after the war, with Bermuda-based vessels reaching the Pacific Ocean via the Panama Canal , and utilising Esquimalt as

232-567: The First Opium War (1840–1842). On 8 June 1841 he received a promotion to captain, and on 14 June he took command of Calliope and participated in the operations that led to the capitulation of Canton, China (now Guangzhou). On 21 January 1842 he was made a Companion of the Bath (CB) . From 3 July 1850 to February 1854 he was captain in Thetis from her commissioning at Plymouth. He sailed her to

261-669: The Pacific Ocean , stopping at Marquesas Islands and then proceeding to Honolulu , where they met a French fleet of warships. In late August, the combined fleets sailed to Russia to engage in the Siege of Petropavlovsk , at which Commander-in-Chief Pacific Station David Price died. Captain of the Pique Frederick William Erskine Nicolson was brevetted and took command of the British naval forces from 31 August 1854 until

290-693: The Satellite Circuit joining the Western Satellite Circuit. In 1975 it became part of the Pacific Northwest Satellite Tour. In 1976 it was part American Express Western Challenger Circuit. In 1975 the Labatt Brewing Company took over sponsorship the event. In 1977 the tournament was not held. In 1978 in its final year it became part of the Canadian Challenger Circuit then was discontinued. The tournament

319-520: The Esquimalt Harbour would make it acceptable for use as a British naval port on the west coast of North America. The following year, James Douglas went out to Vancouver Island intending to set up a trading post for the Hudson's Bay Company . After looking at the shores of Esquimalt Harbour, he decided they were too densely wooded for development, so he opted to build what would become Fort Victoria on

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348-694: The Veterans’ Cemetery and the Cole Island Magazine) were designated the Esquimalt Naval Sites National Historic Site of Canada in 1995. Augustus Leopold Kuper Admiral Sir Augustus Leopold Kuper GCB (16 August 1809 – 28 October 1885) was a Royal Navy officer known for his commands in East Asia. Kuper, whose ancestry was German, joined the navy in 1823 as a midshipman. On 20 February 1830 he became

377-716: The action fought to reopen the Inland Sea and the Straits of Shimonoseki . His interpreter at Shimonoseki was Ernest Satow . Kuper was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) on 25 February 1864 'in acknowledgement of his services at Kagoshima'. In due course, i.e., on 2 June 1869, he became a Knight Grand Cross of the Bath (GCB) and promoted to the rank of vice-admiral in 1866 and to admiral in 1872. On 19 June 1837 he married Emma Margaret, eldest daughter of Rear Admiral Sir Gordon Bremer . Kuper had served under Bremer during

406-593: The arrival of the next commander-in-chief. On 25 November 1854, Rear-Admiral Henry William Bruce , who had been at the West Africa Squadron , was appointed Commander-in-Chief, Pacific. Upon arrival at Esquimalt, Bruce asked Governor James Douglas to provide the navy with a hospital to receive the expected sick and wounded from the Crimean War . In 1855, three wooden huts were built on Duntze Head, which would also be known as Hospital Point. The buildings were

435-614: The concrete walls of the drydock. This new feature enables cruise ships to extend their stabilizers for inspection, maintenance and repair while in drydock. In the 1960s, a consolidation of defence forces in Canada led to the drydock's reformation as the Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt . It is now home to the Pacific Fleet of the Royal Canadian Navy . The dockyard, along with three nearby sites (the former Royal Navy Hospital,

464-514: The first shore establishment of the Royal Navy at Esquimalt. In 1859, the British Colony of Vancouver Island started to construct lighthouses on the approaches to Esquimalt and Victoria Harbours, in part to support the Royal Navy and in part to support civilian navigation amidst the Fraser gold rush and other gold rushes . Fisgard Light was illuminated on 16 November 1860, and Race Rocks Light

493-511: The late 1860s and early 1870s, any navy vessel in need of hull repair at Esquimalt had to be taken to shipyards in Seattle , Washington, in the United States. Motivated by a desire to remove the dependence on American shipyards, and as a negotiated term enticing British Columbia to join confederation with Canada in 1871, a graving dock was constructed at Esquimalt starting in 1876. The graving dock

522-510: The later stages of British involvement in the Taiping Rebellion . To achieve parity with the French navy, whose local commander-in-chief was a Vice-Admiral, Kuper was given temporary promotion to vice admiral . In August 1863 he hoisted his flag in the wooden screw-frigate Euryalus and led a British squadron of seven warships to Kagoshima to coerce the daimyō of Satsuma into paying

551-520: The present day. The naval dockyard was located in Esquimalt , British Columbia, adjacent to Esquimalt Harbour and the city of Victoria , to replace a base in Valparaíso , Chile , as the home of the Royal Navy's Pacific Station and was the only Royal Navy base in western North America . A hydrographic survey carried out by HMS  Pandora around 1842, determined that the location and depth of

580-508: The previous year's champion, who plays only that one match. The challenge round was used in the early history of tennis (from 1877 through 1921), in some tournaments not all. Included: Esquimalt Royal Navy Dockyard Esquimalt Royal Naval Dockyard was a major British Royal Navy yard on Canada's Pacific coast from 1842 to 1905, subsequently operated by the Canadian government as HMC Dockyard Esquimalt, now part of CFB Esquimalt , to

609-557: The shores of the adjacent Victoria Harbour and thereby establish what would become the city of Victoria . Pandora Avenue in Victoria is named in honour of the survey ship, which in turn was named after Pandora of Greek mythology. In 1848, HMS  Constance arrived at Esquimalt and became the first Royal Navy vessel based there. She was commanded by Captain George William Courtenay, after whom Courtenay, British Columbia ,

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638-586: The south-east coast of America and then the Pacific. Kuper Island in the Strait of Georgia , off the east coast of Vancouver Island , was named for him after he surveyed the area from 1851 to 1853. From 13 August 1855 to 24 January 1856 he was the captain of HMS London in the Mediterranean. In 1861 he was promoted to rear-admiral and in 1862 he succeeded Admiral Sir James Hope as Commander-in-Chief, East Indies and China Station . His tenure coincided with

667-564: The survey ship. In 1852, sailors from the Thetis built a trail through the forest linking the Esquimalt Harbour with the Victoria Harbour and Fort Victoria. The trail would eventually be paved and is now known as Old Esquimalt Road (it runs parallel to and just north of Esquimalt Road). In the summer of 1854, several ships, including President , Pique , Trincomalee , Amphitrite , and Virago , set out from Valparaíso and sailed across

696-696: The £25,000 demanded by the British Government as reparation to the British victims of the Namamugi Incident . During the Bombardment of Kagoshima the captain of Euryalus , John James Steven Josling, was killed, as was his second-in-command, Commander Wilmot, both decapitated by the same cannonball. In 1864 Kuper was in command of the International fleet at the Shimonoseki Expedition, Japan ,

725-439: Was commissioned in 1887 and cost CA$ 1,177,664 to build. HMS  Cormorant became the first vessel to use the new drydock on 20 July 1887. In its first seven years of use, the graving dock serviced 24 merchant ships and 70 navy ships. From 1887 through 1927, the graving dock averaged work on 21 vessels per year. The naval graving dock was put out of use until HMCS  Coaticook docked there on 31 August 1945. Now over

754-600: Was held at the Victoria Lawn Tennis Club. In 1950 its name was changed to the Victoria Lawn Tennis and Badminton Club. In 1963 the club's name was altered again to the Victoria Racquet Club. The event was played exclusively on grass courts until 1966 when it switched to hard courts. Notes 1: Challenge Round: the final round of a tournament, in which the winner of a single-elimination phase faces

783-572: Was involved in founding the settlement at Port Essington . From 27 July 1839, he was a lieutenant and acting captain of Pelorous . While he was captain Pelorus wrecked on 25 November by a cyclone at Port Essington. There were no casualties and eventually she was refloated. In December 1840 he was promoted to commander, retroactive to when he took command of Pelorus . On 5 March 1840 he became Acting Captain in Alligator , and with her he participated in

812-787: Was lit on 26 December 1860. In 1865, the facilities in Esquimalt were recognized as an alternate base for the Pacific Station , which was based in Valparaíso. The emphasis of the station started shifting more to British Columbia as the United Kingdom's economic interests shifted northward. The move also allowed the British Admiralty to avoid involvement in the Chincha Islands War (1864–1866) between Spain, Chile, and Peru. In

841-466: Was then organized by the Victoria Lawn Tennis Club (f. 1884) During the World War I , from 1915 to 1918. the championships were not held In 1925, 1926,and 1930 the tournament was jointly valid as Canadian International Championships . From 1940 to 1945 the tournament was not held again due to World War II . In 1973 the event ceased to be a part of the worldwide ILTF Circuit . In 1974 it was downgraded to

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